1. Check your map!

2. South
Asia

3. Where is SOUTH ASIA??

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

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

6. 1st to climb Everest! May 25th, 1953 (his sherpa)
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
(his sherpa)

7. Sherpa – mountain guides of the
Everest region.
Look at the next page of notes!
Vocabulary word on the first page!

8. HINDU KUSH

9. Eastern and Western Ghats (India)
Twin Escarpments in South India – “V” shaped.

10. GHATS

11. RIVERS
Large Delta
GANGES
Used for trade, irrigation,& transportation,

12. GANGES
Cont…
Religious Significance – sacred to Hindus

13. GANGES
Cont…
Heavily Polluted!

14. RIVERS cont…
Brahmaputra River
flooding
Indus River

15. ISLAND COUNTRIES
MALDIVES
SRI LANKA

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

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

18. 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!

19. “Season” (Arabic)
Summer Monsoon (Wet)
Winter Monsoon (Dry)

20. CYCLONE

21. 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

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

23. 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.

24. 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!

25. 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!

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

27. Double Check your answers!
Vocabulary Review!!!!
Double Check your answers!

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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