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| Himalaya Mountains | mountain ranges in south asia that includes mount everest the worlds tallest mountain peak
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| Subcontinent | landmasss that is like a continenet only smaller such as south asia
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| Archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands
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| Atroll | ringlike corral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagooon
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| Monsoon | seasonal winds especilly in south asia
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| cyclonea | violent storms wth fierces winds and heavy rain
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| Hinduism | the dominant religion in india
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| 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
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| Storm surge | high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas
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| Estuary | a droadened seaward end of a river, where the brivers current meet the oceans tide
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| Mughal Empire | the muslim empire established by the earl 1500s over much of india
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| Raj | period of british rule in india which lasted for nearly 200 years
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| Nonviolent resistence | a movement that usesall means of protest except violence
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| Land Reform | process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land ditribution amoung farmers
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| 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
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| 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
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| Indus Valley Civiization | largest of the worlds first civilization in what is now pakistan
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| partition | seperaton; division into two or more territorial units having a seperate political unit
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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 | small loans available to poor entreprenuers
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| entrepreneur | a person who starts and builds a buisness
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| Ramadan | an islamic practive of month long fastinf from sun-up to sun-down
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| 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
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| Tamils | Dravadian hindus from southern india
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| Sultan | governed the maldives
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| Basic necessites | food clothing and shelter
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| Illeracy | the inability to read or to write
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| Summer Monsoon | a wind system that blows from southwest across the indian ocean towards south asia from june through september
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| Winter monsoon | a wind system that blows from northest across the himalayas toward toward the sea from october through february
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