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Countries and Physical Features
Central Asia
Southern Asia
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100
This country is located north of India, and is where much of the Himalayan mountain chain is.
What is Nepal?
100
What is the majority of the climate of Central Asia like.
What is Hot and and Dry, with extreme temperatures and limited rainfall?
100
India and Pakistan both claim this region.
What is Kashmir?
100
What allowed the British to dominate and control trade with India?
Their superior navy.
100
Many Afghans feared that the Soviet Union would ban ______________ if they conquered the country.
Religion (Islam)
200
This country is south of Tajikistan, west of Pakistan.
What is Afghanistan?
200
This resource is abundant in Central Asia, This resource is limited in Central Asia.
Oil in Central Asia is abundant, Water in Central Asia is Limited.
200
Where do Hindus Worship?
Mandirs and with in-home shrines.
200
What allowed for Indian leaders to emerge during the late Raj?
The British allowed for the creation of local Indian councils to discuss the situation in India.
200
This term refers to the Islamic fighters of Afghanistan during the invasion by the Soviet Union.
What is the Mujahadeen?
300
This country is north of Turkmenistan, West of Kyrgyzstan and north west of Tajikistan
What is Uzbekistan?
300
How did the Aral Sea Shrink?
Water was diverted using irrigation for cotton farming.
300
Where are most Hindus found today?
India and Bangladesh
300
What was the partition of India?
After the British allowed independence: Hindu (multi-cultural) India and Muslim Pakistan.
300
What was the name for the route between Europe and Asia that was used for many years to facilitate trade?
What is the Silk Road?
400
This physical feature is located between Indo-China and the subcontinent of India.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
400
This fertile area has been a center of farming in Central Asia for a long time.
What is the Fergana Valley?
400
This is an overwhelming concern for the people of Bangladesh.
What is Population Density?
400
In India, what do Winter Monsoons bring? What do Summer Monsoons bring?
Summer: Rainy and Moist Winter Dry, Arid
400
This term refers to land that can be farmed.
What is arable?
500
This mountain chain is located south of the Steppes and north of the Himalayan Mountains
What is the Tien Shan Mountains?
500
What Soviet Union action lead to health problems in Central Asia?
What are Nuclear Bomb Tests?
500
What is a belief in multiple gods called?
polytheism
500
What were the major results of the British Raj?
Longstanding trust between Hindus and Muslims was broken/ negative economic and social conditions.
500
What is a movable round house made of wool felt mats hung over a wooden frame?
What is a Yurt?