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| Himalaya Mountains | a mountain range in South Asia that includes Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain peak.
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| subcontinent | a landmass that is like a continent, only smaller, such as South Asia, wjich is called the Indian subcontinent.
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| alluvial plain | land that is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, or gravel deposited by running water.
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| archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands.
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| atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small island surrounding a lagoon.
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| monsoon | seasonal wind, especially in South Asia.
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| cyclone | a violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather patter of South Asia.
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| Hinduism | the dominant religion of India.
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| 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.
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| storm surgegh | high water level brought by a cyclone that swapms low-lyng areas.
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| estuary | a broadened seaward end of a river, where the river's currents meet the ocean's tides.
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| 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.
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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 resistance | movement taht uses all means of protests expect violence.
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| land reform | the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land distribution amonf farmers.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Indus Valley civilization | The largest of the world's first civilization in what is now Pakistan.
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| Partition | separation; division of two or more territorial units having separate politicals status.
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| Kashmir | a regionof northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought.
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| microcredit | a small loan available to poor entrepreneurs to help small bussiness grow and raise living standars.
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| entrepreneur | a person who starts and builds a bussines.
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| Ramadan | an Islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown.
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| constitunional monarchy | a governement in which the ruler's power's are limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation.
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| Sherpa | a person of Tibeta anscestry in Nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest.
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| Siddahartha Gautama | the founder of Buddhism and know as the Budha, born in southern Nepalin the sixth century B.C.
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| mandala | in Tibetan Buddhism, a geometric design taht symbolizes the universe and aids in meditation.
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| 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.
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| Tamils | Dravidian Hindu, who arrived in Sri Lanka in the fourth century , settling in the north while the Sinhlease moved further south.
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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 ro read or write.
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| summer monsoon | the season when winds blow from the southwest across the Indian Ocean toward South Asia, from June through September.
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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, sometimes causing drought.
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