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You may want to have Chapters 22,23, & 24 HW On desk! Answers for some ahead!!!
South Asia
Where is SOUTH ASIA??
Countries of South Asia: INDIA BANGLADESH PAKISTAN MALDIVES NEPAL BHUTAN SrI LANKA
PHYSICAL FEATURES MOUNTAINS: HIMALAYAS World’s Tallest Peaks Mt. Everest (29, 028)feet
1 st to climb Everest! Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay May 25 th, 1953 (his sherpa)
Sherpa – mountain guides of the Everest region. Look at the next page of notes! Vocabulary word on the first page!
HINDU KUSH
Eastern and Western Ghats (India) Twin Escarpments in South India – “V” shaped.
GHATS
RIVERS Used for trade, irrigation,& transportation, Large Delta GANGES
Religious Significance – sacred to Hindus GANGES Cont…
GANGES Cont… Heavily Polluted!
RIVERS cont… Brahmaputra River flooding Indus River
ISLAND COUNTRIES SRI LANKA MALDIVES
What are these islands called? Vocabulary Word!!!!!
CLIMATE Highland Humid Subtropical Desert (Thar Desert) in Northern India Semi- Arid Tropical Wet Tropical Wet and Dry
Weather Phenomena Monsoons - seasonal winds Cyclone – violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain Vocabulary Words! Find them in Your packet!
“Season” (Arabic) Summer Monsoon (Wet) Winter Monsoon (Dry)
CYCLONE
History: Indian civilization began in the Indus Valley(now Pakistan ) Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro 1 st two cities Built in the Indus River Valley #1 on HW!
Indian Empires: #18 on HW Mauryan Asoka Gupta Chandragupta I Mughal(Mogul) Akbar
1857 – British established direct rule over India British control – known as the raj. Mohandas Gandhi – #21 on HW! Began opposition movement based on nonviolent resistance. August 14, 1947 – India became independent. Influenced Martin Luther King, JR
CULTURE Religions: INDIA – Hinduism Caste System - Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Sudras, and Dalits(Untouchables) Pakistan & Bangladesh – Islam Ramadan – a month long period of fasting (Fasting – one of the 5 Pillars of Islam) Vocabulary Word!
Buddhism official religion of Bhutan founder was Siddhartha Gautama, known as Buddha, was born on the borders of present-day Nepal and India in the sixth century B.C. #14 on Ch. 23 HW Vocabulary Word!
Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India in memory of Mumtaz, Mahal. Cultural landscape: The Taj Mahal #36 on HW Ch. 23
Vocabulary Review!!!! Double Check your answers!
Visual ImageDefinitionWord a violent storm with fierce winds and heavy rain. cyclone a person of Tibetan ancestry, who serves as the traditional mountain guide of the Mount Everest region sherpa a set of closely grouped islands. archipelago South Asia Vocabulary
a ring like coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon atoll the dominant religion of India. Hinduism a seasonal wind, especially in South Asia monsoon
agricultural program created to develop higher-yielding grain varieties and improve food production by incorporating new farming techniques #7 on Chapter 24 HW Green Revolution a region of India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought #16 on Chapter 24 HW Kashmir the founder of Buddhism and known as Buddha, born in southern Nepal in the sixth century BC. (Page 582) Siddhartha Gautama
land that is rich farmland, composed of clay, silt, sand, or gravel deposited by running water. Alluvial soil an Islamic practice of month-long fasting from sunup to sundown Ramadan