Vocabulary Unit 8
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Himalaya Mountains | A mountain range in South Asia that includes Mt. Everest, the worlds tallest mountain peak.
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| Subcontinent | A landmass that is like a continent, only smaller, such as South Asia, which is called the Indian subcontinent.
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| Alluvial Plain | Land that is rich farmland, composed of clay, composed of clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water.
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| Archipelago | A set of closely grouped islands.
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| Atoll | A ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon.
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| Monsoon | A seasonal wind, especially in South Asia.
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| Cyclone | Violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of South Asia.
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| Hinduism | The dominant religion of India.
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| Ganges River | A river in South Asia; an important water resource flowing more than 1,500 miles from it's source in Himalayan glacier to the Bay of Bengal.
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| Storm Surge | High water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas.
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| Estuary | A broadened seaward end of a river, where the river's currents meet the ocean's tide.
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| Mughal Empire | The Muslim empire established
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| Raj | The period of British rule in India, which lasted for nearly 200 years, from 1857-1947.
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| Nonviolent Resistance | A movement that uses all means of protest except violence.
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| Land Reform | The process of breaking up large landfoldings to attain a more balanced land distribution among farmers.
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| Green Revolution | An agricultural program launched by scientists in the 1960s used to develop higher-yielding grain varieties and improve food production by incorporating new farming techniques.
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| Caste System | The Aryan system of social classes in India and one of the cornerstones of Hinduism in which each person is born into a caste and can only move into a different caste through reincarnation.
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| Indus Valley Civilization | The largest of the world's first civilizations in what is now Pakistan; this was a highly developed urban civilization, lasting from 2500 B.C. to 1500 A.D.
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| Partition | Seperation/division into two or more territorial units having a seperate political status.
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| Kashmir | A region of northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought.
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| MicroCredit | A small loan available to poor entrepeneurs to help small businesses grow and raise living standards.
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| Entepeneur | A person who starts and builds a business.
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| Ramadan | An islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown.
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| Constitutional Monarchy | A government in which the ruler's powers are limited by a constitution and the laws of a nation.
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| Sherpa | A person of Tibetan ancestry in Nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest region.
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| Siddhartha Gautama | The founder of Buddhism and known as the Buddha, birn in southern Nepal in sixth century B.C.
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| Mandala | In Tibetan Buddhism, a geometric design that symbolizes the universe and aids in meditation.
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| Sinhalese | An Indo-Aryan people who crossed the straight seperating India and Sri Lanka in the sixth century B.C. and who created an advanced civilization there, adopting Buddhism.
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| Tamils | A Dravidian Hindu, who arrived in Sri Lanka in the fourth century, settling in the north while the Sinhalese moved further south.
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| Sultan | A ruler of a Muslim country.
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| Basic Necessitites | Food, clothing, and shelter.
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| Illiteracy | The inhability to read or write.
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| Summer Monsoon | The season when winds blow from the southwest across the Indian Ocean toward South Asia, from June-September, with winds stirring up powerful storms and casuing severe flooding.
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| Winter Monsoon | The season when dry winds blow from the northeast across the Himalaya Mountains toward the sea from October-February, sometimes causing drought.
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