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17 Cards in this Set
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Mountain Building process in South Asia
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Convergent Plate Boundaries. India Plate moves north into Eurasian plate
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Climates of South Asia
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P 546: South is A (Am west, Aw east, Af Sri Lanka)
Cwa in north India and Nepal Am in Bangladesh, B towards Pakistan |
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Sea Breeze Land Breeze
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Monsoon weather brings rain and dryness in off-season
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orographic rainfall
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Cooling of uplifting moist monsoon winds over Western Ghats
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Chipko Movement
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Non-violent protest inspired by Ghandi\
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Salinization
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Soil exposed to sea water becomes salinized and crops don't like salt
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Urban South Asia
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India's Cities are enveloped by slums and filled with shanty's. More than 80% living with less than 2 dollars per day
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Hindu Nationalism
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Hinduism is most widespread and national religion in idndia
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Sanskrit
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ancient language, Dead language
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Caste System
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Heierchy of Social class based on background
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Mughal Empire
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The Mughal empire. The moghals tried to take over india.
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Sikhism
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Created to protect india from the Mughals
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Hindi
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National language of India although it is not widely spoken
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Urdu
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Linguistic Nationalism
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Each state within India has its own language
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British East India Company
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Private firm that acted as an arm of the British government and ruled india
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Independence and Partition of British India
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Many people fled India to pakistan and
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