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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
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