Chapter 8 Terms Flashcards
A mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
Himalaya mountains
A transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayan river of South and Central Asia.
Indus River
A trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh.
Ganges River
A trans-boundary river which flows through Southwestern China, Northeastern India, and Bangladesh.
Brahmaputra River
A 700-thousand km² fertile plain encompassing northern regions of the Indian subcontinent, including most of modern-day northern and eastern India, most of eastern-Pakistan, virtually all of Bangladesh and southern plains of Nepal.
Indo-Gangetic Plain
A seasonal period of precipitation or dryness: the wet summer _________ begins with the arrival of rain in June; the dry weather ___________ begins by November.
monsoon
____________ is located in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, the world’s largest delta, which is also known as the Bengal Delta
Bangladesh
A major world religion practiced by approximately 900 million people, 800 million of whom live in India.
Hinduism
A complex, ancient Hindu system for dividing society into hereditary hierarchal classes.
caste system
A religion of Asia that originated in India in the sixth century B.C.E. as an effort to reform and reinterpret Hinduism.
Buddhism
A religion of South Asia that combines the beliefs of Islam and Hinduism
Sikhism
Protesting of laws or policies by peaceful direct action.
civil disobedience
The breakup following Indian independence that resulted in the establishment of Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan.
Partition
The association of a country with a particular religion, with the intent of excluding or disadvantaging other religions.
religious nationalism
An archconservative Islamist movement that gained control of the government of Afghanistan in the mid-1990s.
Taliban
