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Himalaya Mountains | mountain ranges in south asia that includes mount everest the worlds tallest mountain peak |
Subcontinent | landmasss that is like a continenet only smaller such as south asia |
Archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands |
Atroll | ringlike corral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagooon |
Monsoon | seasonal winds especilly in south asia |
cyclonea | violent storms wth fierces winds and heavy rain |
Hinduism | the dominant religion in india |
Ganges River | river in south asia an important water resources flowing more than 1,500 miles from its source in a himilayan glacier to the bay of bengal |
Storm surge | high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas |
Estuary | a droadened seaward end of a river, where the brivers current meet the oceans tide |
Mughal Empire | the muslim empire established by the earl 1500s over much of india |
Raj | period of british rule in india which lasted for nearly 200 years |
Nonviolent resistence | a movement that usesall means of protest except violence |
Land Reform | process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land ditribution amoung farmers |
Green Revolution | an agricultura program launched by scientist in the 1960s to develop higheryeildin g grain varieties and improve food by icorporat fewer farming techniques |
Caste system | aryan system of social classes in india and one of the cornerstones in hindism in whch each person is born into a caste and coan only move into a diffrent caste throgh reincarnation |
Indus Valley Civiization | largest of the worlds first civilization in what is now pakistan |
partition | seperaton; division into two or more territorial units having a seperate political unit |
Kashmir | a region of northern india and pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought |
Microcredit | small loans available to poor entreprenuers |
entrepreneur | a person who starts and builds a buisness |
Ramadan | an islamic practive of month long fastinf from sun-up to sun-down |
Sinhalese | an indo aryan who crossed the straight seperating india ans sri lanka in the sixth century B.C and whp created an advanced civilazation there |
Tamils | Dravadian hindus from southern india |
Sultan | governed the maldives |
Basic necessites | food clothing and shelter |
Illeracy | the inability to read or to write |
Summer Monsoon | a wind system that blows from southwest across the indian ocean towards south asia from june through september |
Winter monsoon | a wind system that blows from northest across the himalayas toward toward the sea from october through february |