48441 students unit8 Word Scramble
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Himalaya Mountains | a mountain range in south asia that icludes mount everest, the world's tallest mountain peak. |
subcontinent | a landmass taht is like a continent, only smaller, such as south asia, wich is called the indian subcontinent. |
allavial plain | land taht is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposite by running water. |
archipelago | a set of closely gruped islands. |
atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small islands surounding a lagoon. |
monsoon | a seasonal wind, especially in south asia. |
cyclone | a violent storm with firce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of south asia. |
hinduism | the domiunant region if india. |
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. |
storm surge | high warer level brougth by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas. |
estuary | a broadned seaward and of a river, where the river's currents meet the ocean's tides. |
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. |
raj | the period of british rule in india, which lasted for nearly 200 years, from 1857 to 1947 |
nonviolent resistence | a movement that uses all means of protest except violence. |
land reform | the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balance land distribution among farmers. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
partition | separation; division into two or more territorial units having separate political status. |
kashmir | a region of northern india and pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought. |
microcredit | a small sloan available to poor entrepreneus, to help small bisenesses grow and rise living standards. |
entrepreneur | a person who starts and built a business. |
ramadan | an islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown. |
constitutional monarchacy | a govermental in which. |
sherpa | A person of tideran ancestry in nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the mount evrest region |
siddhartha gautama | the fouder of buddhism and known as the buddha , born born in southern nepal in the six century b.c |
mandala | in tibetan buddhism, a geometric design that symbolize the universe and aids in meditation |
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. |
tamils | dravidian hindu who arrived in sri lanka in the forth century setting |
sultan | a ruler of a muslim country. |
basic necessities | food, clothing, and shelter |
illiteracy | the inability to read or write |
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. |
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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