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Unit 8 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Himilaya Mountains | a mountain range in South Asia that includes Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain peak. |
| Subcontinent | a landmass that is like a continent, only smaller, such as South Asia, which is also called India subcontinent. |
| Alluvial Plain | a land that is rich of farmland, composed of clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water. |
| Archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands. |
| Atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon. |
| Monsoon | a seasonal wind, especially in South Asia. |
| Cyclone | a violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern in South Asia. |
| Hinduism | the dominant religion of India. |
| Storm Surge | high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low lying areas. |
| Gagnes river | a river in South Asia, an important water resource flowing more than 1,500 miles from its source in a Himilayan glacier to the Bay of Bengal. |
| Estuary | a broadened seaward end of a river, where river currents meet the ocean's tides. |
| Mughal Empire | the Muslim Empire established by the early 1500s over much of India, which brought with new customs that sometimes conflicted with the native Hindus. |
| Raj | the period of british rule in India, which lasted 200 years, from 1857 to 1947. |
| Nonviolent Resistance | a movement that uses all means of protest except violence. |
| Land reform | the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land distribution for farmers. |
| Green Revolution | an agricultural program launched by scientists in the 1960s to improve food production. |
| Caste System | the Aryan system of social classes in India ans one of the cornerstone of Hinduism which each person is born into caste and can't switch castes unless through reincarnation. |
| Indus Valley civilization | the largest of the first civilizations in what is now pakistan,; this was a highly developed area. |
| Partition | Seperation; division into two or several territoties units having seperate political status. |
| Kashmir | a region of north India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought. |
| Microcredit | a small loan avaliable to poor entrepreneurs, to help small buissinesses grow and raise living standards. |
| Entrepreneur | a person who starts and builds a bussiness. |
| Ramadan | an Islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown. |
| Constitutional Monarchy | a government in which the ruler's powers are limited by the constitution and laws of the nation. |
| Sherpa | a person of Tibetan ancestory in Nepal. |
| Siddhartha Guatama | the founder of Buddhism and known as Buddha, born in Nepal in the 6th century. |
| Mandala | a geometric design used in Tabiten Buddhism. |
| Sinhalese | an Indo-Aryan who crossed the straight between Sri Lanka and India. |
| Tamils | a Dravidan Hindu, who arrived in Sri Lanka in the Fourth Century, settling in the north while the Sinhalese moved south. |
| Sultan | a ruler of a muslim country. |
| Basic Necessities | food, clothing, and shelter. |
| Illiteracy | the inability to read and write. |
| Summer Moonsoon | the season when wind blows from southwest across the Indian Ocean toward southwest Asia, from June to September, with winds stirring up powerful storms causing severe floods. |
| Winter Moonsoon | the season when dry winds blow from the northeast across the Himilayan Mountains toward the sea from October through February, sometimes causing drought. |
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