world geogrphy
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| Himalaya Mountains | a mountain range in south asia that icludes mount everest, the world's tallest mountain peak.
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| subcontinent | a landmass taht is like a continent, only smaller, such as south asia, wich is called the indian subcontinent.
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| allavial plain | land taht is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposite by running water.
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| archipelago | a set of closely gruped islands.
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| atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small islands surounding a lagoon.
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| monsoon | a seasonal wind, especially in south asia.
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| cyclone | a violent storm with firce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of south asia.
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| hinduism | the domiunant region if india.
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| ganges river | river in south asia; an important water resource flowing more than 1500 miles from its source in a himalayan glacier to the bayb of bengal.
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| storm surge | high warer level brougth by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas.
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| estuary | a broadned seaward and of a river, where the river's currents meet the ocean's tides.
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| mughal empire | the musulim empire established by the early 1500s over much if india, which brought with it new customs that somethimes conflicted with those of native hindus.
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| raj | the period of british rule in india, which lasted for nearly 200 years, from 1857 to 1947
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| nonviolent resistence | a movement that uses all means of protest except violence.
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| land reform | the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balance land distribution among farmers.
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| green revolution | an agricultural program launched by scientist bin the 1960s to develop higher-yielding grain varieties and improve food production by incorporating new farming teachniques.
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| castle system | the ayran system of social classes in india and one of the cornerstones if hinduisum in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste through reincartion
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| indus valley civilization | the largest of the world's first civilization in what is now pakistan; this was a highly developed urban civilization, lasting from 2500 b.c. to about 1500 b.c.
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| partition | separation; division into two or more territorial units having separate political status.
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| kashmir | a region of northern india and pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought.
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| microcredit | a small sloan available to poor entrepreneus, to help small bisenesses grow and rise living standards.
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| entrepreneur | a person who starts and built a business.
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| ramadan | an islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown.
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| constitutional monarchacy | a govermental in which.
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| sherpa | A person of tideran ancestry in nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the mount evrest region
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| siddhartha gautama | the fouder of buddhism and known as the buddha , born born in southern nepal in the six century b.c
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| mandala | in tibetan buddhism, a geometric design that symbolize the universe and aids in meditation
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| sinhalese | an ondo-aryan people who crossed the strait separating india and sri lanka in the six century b.c and who created an advanced civilization there, adopting buddhaism.
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| tamils | dravidian hindu who arrived in sri lanka in the forth century setting
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| sultan | a ruler of a muslim country.
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| basic necessities | food, clothing, and shelter
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| illiteracy | the inability to read or write
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| summer monsoon | the season when winds blow from the southwest across the indian ocean toward sothd asia, from june through september, with winds stirring up powerful storms and causing severe flooding.
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| winter monsoon | the season when dry winds blow from the northeast across the himalaya mountains toward the sea from october through february, somethimes causing drough
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