SOUTH ASIA REVIEW

What is the name for the IRVC alphabet which has yet to be translated?

This private company got exclusive trading rights with India beginning in 1600.

Nepal was settled around ______ BCE, around the time Siddharta Guatama lived.

The ______ region in northern India is one of the richest agricultural areas in the world.

A permanent division of people into certain levels within society.

Although there are 10 distinct ethnic groups in India alone, ____ is celebrated in south Asia.

The ancient Indus River Valley civilization was located in the Indus River _______.

The Ganges is especially important to India because...

This major geographic region covers much of southern India and is arid.

The most arid climate region in S Asia, close to the Pakistan Border, contains the _________.

The _____ river flows through Bangladesh before empyting into the Bay of Bengal.

Gandhi's 1930 March to the Sea was to protest Britain's monopoly over...

By the 1850s, Britain is primarily ruling India with...

In the summer months, monsoons bring in _______ air from the southwest.

An island group.

_____ soil is especially fertile because it is fed nutrients deposited by a flooding/a river.

Aprroximately 50 million years ago, the Indian tectonic plate collided with the ______ plate.

Cyclones are most destructive in _____ because this is a low-lying coastal country.

The Indus River Valley civilization actively traded with _________.

The Indus River Valley Civ. flourished around ______ BCE, approx. five thousand years ago.

This country off the southern tip of India is a beautiful but eroding archipelago.

Jobs like dealing with dead bodies and cleaning gutters were reserved for this caste.

Deforestation is a big problem in India. Less than _____ of India's original forests remain.

The era in which the Indo-Europeans dominated the south Asian region is known as...

How many castes are there (not including the group "below" the rest)?

The IRVC left no remains of palaces or temples, which suggests that they were a ____ society.

The Indo-Europeans are sometimes called ____.

The collision of the two tectonic plates resulted in the formation of the ________ mountains.

The IRVC had one of the first known cases of _____ in human history.

The ____ River flows from the central Himalayas across northern India.

South Asia contains _____ of the world's entire population.

"The White Man's Burden" was an anti-imperialist poem written by...

In the winter months, monsoons bring _____ wind from the northeast.

The IRVC is different from other civilizations because they have very little evidence of...

A type of island chain surrounded by coral reefs.

How many climate types can be found in South Asia?

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of IRV life is the fact that they had...

The IRVC is sometimes called the _____ Civilization, named after one of its largest cities.

How many countries comprise the Indian subcontinent/South Asia?

The largest group on the caste system; servants, farmhands, etc. Lowest level.

The 1919 Massacre prompted Ghandi to...

The Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 was a conflict sparked over...

The only records that the Indo-Europeans left are the _____.

This south Asian island country, aka the Tear Drop, is a lush, tropical paradise.

By about 1500 BCE, the Indus River Valley natives were replaced by the _________.

A large, distinguishable part of a continent is sometimes called

Too little rainfall from the summer monsoons could result in...

In which climate region am I likeliest to find a blue sheep, snow leopard, or yak?

The _____ River flows through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.

All three of the great rivers begin...

This country was the first western influence in Sri Lanka when they arrived in 1505.