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Geo Mod 13 #2
Geo Mod 13 #2: Sout Asia
Question | Answer |
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South Asia was initially occupied with trading posts by the ______ and Portuguese | French |
By the 1840s, the ______, through the British East India Company was largely in ______ of South Asia, except for Afghanistan, Nepal and Bhutan | British; Control |
_______ withdrew from South Asia in 1947 and the British South Asia divided into India, West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) | British |
After the British withdrew from South Asia, ______ resulted between groups there that led to more than a million killed and 14 million people displaced | Violence |
When the British left South Asia, ______ was not included in the splitting up and India, Pakistan, and China are still fighting for _____ of it | Kashmir; Control |
There is internal and external ______ in Kashmir which contains _____, Hindu, and Buddhist populations | Conflict; Muslim |
Sri Lanka has seen ethnic violence from ______ and _______ differences between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese | Religious; Linguistic |
There are ethnic conflicts between Bangladesh and _____ | India |
Afghanistan has conflict from the ______ occupation, followed by tribal warfare followed by the Taliban and ______ terrorist attacks | Soviet; 9/11 |
South Asia is one of the world's _______ regions but wealth does exist | Poorest |
There are some high-tech business and links to ______ economy in South Asia | Global |
1 out of 3 of the world's malnourished children live in _______ | India |
Women in Muslim and Hindu societies have a _____ social position | Low |
Female literacy rates are _____ males in South Asia | Behind |
Violence and marginalization of women and girls is rampant in _______ controlled Afghanistan | Taliban |
_______ ratios are ______ due to gender-selective abortion and female child neglect | Gender; Unbalanced |
Violence against _______, dowry demands, and dowry murders remain issues in South Asia | Women |
Women who are educated tend to educate ____ their kids, marry ____ in life, and have fewer kids themselves and contribute to household income and reduce poverty | All; Later |