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Himalaya Mountains | a mountain range in South Asia that includes Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain peak. |
subcontinent | a landmass that is like a continent, only smaller, such as South Asia, wjich is called the Indian subcontinent. |
alluvial plain | land that is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, or gravel deposited by running water. |
archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands. |
atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small island surrounding a lagoon. |
monsoon | seasonal wind, especially in South Asia. |
cyclone | a violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather patter of South Asia. |
Hinduism | the dominant religion of India. |
Ganges River | river in South Asia; an important water resource flowing more than 1500 miles from its source in Himalayan glacier to the Bay of Bengal. |
storm surgegh | high water level brought by a cyclone that swapms low-lyng areas. |
estuary | a broadened seaward end of a river, where the river's currents meet the ocean's tides. |
Mughal Empire | the muslims empire established by thye early 1500s over so much of India,which brought with new customs that sometimes conflicted with those of native Hindus. |
raj | the period of British rule in India, which lasted for nearly 200 years from 1857 to 1947. |
nonviolent resistance | movement taht uses all means of protests expect violence. |
land reform | the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land distribution amonf farmers. |
Green Revolution | an agricultural program launched by scientists in the 1960s to develop higher-yielding grain varities and improve food production by incorporating new farming techniques. |
caste system | the Aryan system os social classes in India and one of the cornestones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a castle and can only move into a different caste through reincarnation. |
Indus Valley civilization | The largest of the world's first civilization in what is now Pakistan. |
Partition | separation; division of two or more territorial units having separate politicals status. |
Kashmir | a regionof northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought. |
microcredit | a small loan available to poor entrepreneurs to help small bussiness grow and raise living standars. |
entrepreneur | a person who starts and builds a bussines. |
Ramadan | an Islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown. |
constitunional monarchy | a governement in which the ruler's power's are limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation. |
Sherpa | a person of Tibeta anscestry in Nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest. |
Siddahartha Gautama | the founder of Buddhism and know as the Budha, born in southern Nepalin the sixth century B.C. |
mandala | in Tibetan Buddhism, a geometric design taht symbolizes the universe and aids in meditation. |
Sinhlaese | an Indo-Aryan people who crossed the strait separating India and Sri Lanka in the sixth centuary B.C. and who created an advanced civilization therem, adopting Budhism. |
Tamils | Dravidian Hindu, who arrived in Sri Lanka in the fourth century , settling in the north while the Sinhlease moved further south. |
sultan | a ruler of a Muslim country. |
basic necessities | food, clothing, and shelter. |
illiteracy | the inability ro read or write. |
summer monsoon | the season when winds blow from the southwest across the Indian Ocean toward South Asia, from June through September. |
winter monsoon | the season when dry winds blow from the northeast across the Himalaya Mountains toward the sea from October through February, sometimes causing drought. |