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South Asia

Where is SOUTH ASIA?? http://www.askasia.org/image/maps/asias1.htm

Countries of South Asia: INDIA PAKISTAN BANGLADESH MALDIVES NEPAL BHUTAN SrI LANKA

MOUNTAINS: PHYSICAL FEATURES HIMALAYAS World’s Tallest Peaks Mt. Everest (29, 028)feet

1st to climb Everest! May 25th, 1953 (his sherpa) Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (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 Large Delta GANGES Used for trade, irrigation,& transportation,

GANGES Cont… Religious Significance – sacred to Hindus

GANGES Cont… Heavily Polluted!

RIVERS cont… Brahmaputra River flooding Indus River

ISLAND COUNTRIES MALDIVES SRI LANKA

What are these islands called? ATOLLS Vocabulary Word!!!!!

CLIMATE Highland Humid Subtropical Desert (Thar Desert) in Northern India Semi- Arid Tropical Wet Tropical Wet and Dry

Vocabulary Words! Find them in 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: Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro 1st two cities Built in the Indus Indian civilization began in the Indus Valley(now Pakistan) Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro 1st two cities Built in the Indus River Valley

Mauryan Asoka Gupta Chandragupta I Mughal(Mogul) Akbar Indian Empires: #18 on Ch. 23 HW Mauryan Asoka Gupta Chandragupta I Mughal(Mogul) Akbar

Began opposition movement based on nonviolent resistance. 1857 – British established direct rule over India British control – known as the raj. Mohandas Gandhi – Influenced Martin Luther King, JR Began opposition movement based on nonviolent resistance. August 14, 1947 – India became independent.

CULTURE Vocabulary Word! 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. Vocabulary Word!

Cultural landscape: The Taj Mahal Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India in memory of Mumtaz, Mahal.

Double Check your answers! Vocabulary Review!!!! Double Check your answers!

cyclone sherpa archipelago South Asia Vocabulary Visual Image Definition Word 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

atoll Hinduism monsoon 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

Green Revolution Kashmir Siddhartha Gautama 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