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This country is most heavily impacted by typhoons and summer monsoons
What is Bangladesh?
Most of S Asia’s rivers originate here.
What are the Himalayas?
Occurs typically between the months of November and March/April.
What is the winter (dry) monsoon?
Extremely polluted; most holy to Hindus; very dense population along it.
What is the Ganges River?
Allows movement between Pakistan and Afghanistan Allows movement between Pakistan and Afghanistan. A very strategic location.
What is the Khyber Pass?
The Hindu religion is based on the traditions of these people.
Who are the Aryans?
This is the term for what Hindus consider the ultimate goal of life.
What is moksha?
Adherents to this faith are mostly found in the Indian state of Punjab.
Who are the Sikhs?
“What goes around comes around.”
What is karma?
The Muslim-majority nations of S Asia.
What are Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Maldives?
The Buddhist-majority nations of S Asia.
What are Sri Lanka and Bhutan?
Two major reasons why, other than cheap labor, India is a recipient of outsourced jobs.
What are education and good English-speaking skills?
The Hindu hierarchy of social classes.
What is the caste system?
Mahatma Gandhi’s method of resistance to the British Raj.
What is civil disobedience?
The majority and minority ethnic groups of Sri Lanka.
What are the Sinhalese and Tamils?
A catching-fire idea for small business creation that focuses on women and started in Bangladesh.
What is/are microcredit/ microloans?
Began in India in the 1960s – looked for ways to ↑ productivity on farms, also created bug-resistant crops.
What is the Green Revolution?
The Brits importing clothing from Bangladesh tariff-free is an example of this:
What is Free Trade?
Globalization has led to more and more of these types of jobs in India.
What are outsourced?
Bhutan exports this “white-gold” to India.
What is hydroelectric power?
Mass migrations of Hindus to India and Muslims to the Pakistans, about a million deaths – as a result of this.
What is the partitioning of India and Pakistan?
Holy sites relevant to the two religions contributed to the 30-year civil war here .
What is Sri Lanka?
Border issues have created conflict between these three nations:
What are Pakistan, India, and China?
Pakistan and India both possess these, so look out!
What are nuclear weapons?
The first rock concert with a cause was to help the people of this country that successfully broke apart from Pakistan.
What is Bangladesh?
Mt. Everest and K2 sit on the borders of these two countries.
What are Nepal and Pakistan?
The caste system in India – legal or not legal?
What is NOT?
This is the location for much conflict between the Indians and Pakistanis.
What is Kashmir?
People of this faith typically avoid walking in fields.
What is Jainism?
This has contributed to the overall increase of world food production.
What is the Green Revolution?
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The capitals of Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh are:
What are Male, Colombo, Thimphu, Kathmandu, Islamabad, New Delhi, Dhaka