Vocabulary
Places
History
Human Geography
Potpourri
100
Seasonal winds of South Asia
What is a monsoon?
100
The tallest mountain in the world is located in this country.
What is Nepal?
100
Pakistan split off from India because its population was primarily this religion.
What is Islam?
100
Most people in India don't eat this type of food.
What is meat.
100
Besides Pakistan, this is the other major Islamic country in South Asia.
What is Bangladesh?
200
Action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation
What is Karma?
200
This country consists mostly of one island with mountains at its center.
What is Sri Lanka?
200
This was a period of British rule in India.
What is the Raj?
200
This was the use of new techniques that provide a high yield of grain that produces more food.
What is the Green Revolution.
200
India has this type of government.
What is parliamentary?
300
The creation of goods and products are produced at home instead of a factory.
What is a cottage industry?
300
This country is located between the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers.
What is Bangladesh?
300
The Mauryan Empire spread this religion.
What is Buddhism?
300
Small loans that help start very small businesses.
What are microcredits?
300
A ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral.
What is an atoll?
400
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is globalization?
400
These two South Asian countries are landlocked.
What are Bhutan and Nepal?
400
This man resisted British rule through hunger strikes and non-violent protest.
Who is Mohandas Gandi.
400
Nepal and Bhutan have this kind of government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
400
A practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally.
What is outsourcing?
500
A group of closely set islands.
What is an archipelago?
500
This country is an archipelago of over 1200 small islands.
What is the Maldives?
500
This region has been fought over since India and Pakistan split?
What is Kashmir?
500
Marriages in India are this kind.
What is an arranged marriage?
500
The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another.
What is cultural diffusion?