Southeast Asia vocab

Question 1

a weather pattern in which major wind systems reverse direction depending on the season.

Answer 1

monsoon

Question 2

the largest country in South Asia in both land, area and population.

Answer 2

India

Question 3

the largest country in South Asia in both land, area and population.

Answer 3

Himalaya

Question 4

a shortage of rainfall in a region may cause dry conditions.

Answer 4

drought

Question 5

one of the Earth’s longest rivers. Flows about 1,800 miles from Himalayas in Tibet to the Arabian Sea it creates very fertile land.

Answer 5

Indus River

Question 6

earliest civilization used environments- Indus River, melting snow, adapted to climate

Answer 6

Pakistan

Question 7

a village located on the banks of now-dry section of the Ravi River.

Answer 7

Harappa

Question 8

starting from the melting snows of the Himalayas, the Ganges River flows more than 1,500 miles across the northern plains of India to its delta in the Bay of Bengal.

Answer 8

Ganges valley

Question 9

it’s the dominant religion in India, is one of the world’s oldest religions and the third largest.

Answer 9

Hinduism

Question 10

the large-scale clearing of trees by humans who use the cleared land for growing crops or grazing livestock or the trees for timber and wood products.

Answer 10

deforestation

Question 11

the process by which dry or semiarid regions become dryer and less productive, creating conditions much like those of deserts.

Answer 11

Desertification

Question 12

a mountainous region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

Answer 12

kashmir

Question 13

an extremely powerful and destructive water wave caused by underwater earthquakes.

Answer 13

Tsunami

Question 14

all of the food that farmers produce used to feed their own families.

Answer 14

subsistence farming

Question 15

is an urban area starting to decline or shrink and can be caused by many issues like abandoned homes or neighborhoods, poverty, and places falling into disrepair

Answer 15

urban area

Question 16

a government in which the people have the power to make political decisions.

Answer 16

democracy

Question 17

Polynesian people who migrated from what was likely the island of Tahiti to present-day New Zealand in the fourteenth century.

Answer 17

mauri

Question 18

(ancient trade route)system of caravan tracts that connected ancient China to civilizations to the west.

Answer 18

silk road

Question 19

the path to spiritual enlightenment in Buddhism.

Answer 19

eightfold path

Question 20

ppl in the lowest indian society and usually do the hardest jobs while facing discrimination

Answer 20

Dakuts

Question 21

one of the largest religions in the world and monotheistic.

Answer 21

Islam

Question 22

founder of Buddhism, one of the major religions and philosophical systems in Asia.

Answer 22

Siddhartha

Question 23

a person who has reached freedom from pain and suffering

Answer 23

Buddha

Question 24

believed to be priest and teachers whose role was to teach and pass down scriptures like the Vedas.

Answer 24

Brahmins

Question 25

four fundamental principles of Buddhism.

Answer 25

four noble truths

Question 26

the idea that after a person dies, his or her soul is reborn in another form

Answer 26

reincarnation

Question 27

in the late 1400s in the Punjab region of South Asia, Guru Nanak founded the religion of Sikhism.

Answer 27

sikhism

Question 28

arranges people into hereditary groups within a society.

Answer 28

caste system

Question 29

established by Prince Babur who was related to the Mongols, which in Persian is Mughal and he ruled most of the indian subcontinent to the early 1500s

Answer 29

Mughal empire

Question 30

a system in which people or things are categorized by importance or status

Answer 30

Hierarchy

Question 31

migrant Indian people who made up the Mauryan.

Answer 31

Mauryas

Question 32

one of the India’s major religions, along with Hinduism and Buddhism.

Answer 32

Jainism