South Asia Reading Guide Flashcards
Bollywood
Hindi language film industry
Brain drain
Talented and educated young people go to Europe and US
Dowry
Bride pays the groom’s parents (If bride is a girl)
Describe the monsoon pattern of South Asia
North in summer, south in winter
Describe the Green Revolution in India. What benefits and criticisms are associated with the Green Revolution?
Making more agricultural stuff
Output is doubled, and even tripled
but…
costs more land, fuel, water, fertilizer, etc.
Describe the potential impacts of global climate change in the region.
Storms, floods, and sea-level rise, heat, drought, glacial melting, and disease
What local resources have been an important part of the region’s architecture?
Iron, gold, copper, mica, coal, bauxite, etc
How did efforts to provide drinking water in Bangladesh have unintended hazardous consequences?
Arsenic
Explain how humans have contributed to resource depletion, environmental pollution and declines in biodiversity in the region.
Deforestation, water, soil, and fuel exhaustion, water and air pollution.
Describe the partition. What is the legacy of the partition, particularly as it relates to the region of Kashmir?
It was an idea to give ethnic people their own region, but led to war and conflict that continues to this day. Kashmir particularly became a conflict zone-they wanted to join India, the the Pakistani didn’t want them to (there were Muslims there)
Describe distribution of climates across the region.
Mostly dry in the middle east
continental in Russia
mild and tropical in india and SEA
tropical in Indonesia.
Describe the population distribution of South Asia.
Mostly in India and southern China and central Middle East
What is the predominant religion of each of the following countries? India Bhutan Pakistan Nepal Bangladesh Sri Lanka Afghanistan
India, Nepal Hinduism
Bhutan, Sri Lanka Buddhism
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan Islam
The Indian subcontinent is separated from the rest of Asia by the _____, the highest mountain range in the world.
Himalayas
_____, the Hindu festival of lights
Diwali
