world geography unit 4 voc
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Himalaya 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 called the Indian subcontinent |
| Alluvial Plain | land that is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water |
| Archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands |
| Atoll | ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon |
| Monsoon | a seasonal wind in southern Asia |
| Cyclone | a violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain; the most extreme weather pattern of South Asia |
| HInduism | the dominant religion of India |
| Ganges River | River in South Asia; an important water resource flowing more than 1,500 miles from its source in a Himalayan glacier to the Bay of Bengal. |
| Storm Surge | high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low- lying area |
| Estuary | a broadened seaward end of a river, wherethe river's currents meet the oceans meet the ocean's tide |
| Mughal Empire | muslim empire established throughout india by 1500s |
| Raj | The period of British rule in India, which lasted for nearly 90 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 among farmers |
| Green Revolution | an agricultural method that uses higher yielding grain and new farming techniques |
| 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. |
| Indus Valley civlization | the largest of the world's civilizations in what is now Pakistan; this was a highly developed urban civilization, lasting from 2500 B.C to about 1500 B.C |
| Parition | seperation; division into two or more territorial units having seperate political status |
| Kashmir | a region of northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought |
| Microcredit | small loan avaliable to poor entrepreneurs, to help businesses grow and raise living standards. |
| Entrepreneur | a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business |
| Ramadan | an Islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown |
| Constitutional Monarchy | form of government in which the monarch's powers are limited by a constitution |
| Sherpa | a person of Tibetan ancestry in Nepal, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest region |
| Siddartha Gautama | founder of buddhis; known later as The Buddha |
| Mandala | in Tibetan Buddhism, a geometric design that symbolizes and aids in meditation |
| Sinhalese | an Indo-Aryan people who crossed the strait separating India and Sri Lanka in the 6th century BC and who created an advanced civilization there, adopting Buddhism |
| Tamils | dravidian hindu who arrived in sri lanka in the fourth century, settling in norht while the sinhalese moved further south |
| Sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country |
| Basic Necessities | food, clothing, and shelter |
| illiteracy | The inability to read and write |
| Summer monsoon | the season when wind blow from the southwest across the India ocean toward South Asia, from June though September, with winds stirring up poweful storms and cusing severe flooding |
| Winter monsoon | the season when dry wind blow from the northest across the Himalaya mountains toward the sea from october through february,sometimes causing drought. |
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