Exam 8: South Asia

Which mountain range shields the Indian subcontinent from cold airflows from the north?

India has regularly diverted a large proportion of the Ganga River flow in order to serve the needs of what large city?

What group is increasingly more active in politics?

One direct effect of the dowry ritual is that poor families can be economically crippled when they pay to get their daughters married.

What three countries claim territory in the Kashmir region?

The British created a single state out of what are now the countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh because most of their inhabitants shared a faith in what religion?

Hindi is the first language of a majority of South Asians.

The capital of Afghanistan is:

The Sardar Sarovar Dam is intended to dam which Indian river?

Services now contribute over 50 percent of GNI in all South Asian countries EXCEPT:

Conflicts arising from religious nationalism often involve simultaneous claims to a particular territory.

The conservative Islamist movement that gained control of Afghanistan's government in the mid-1990s was the:

What are conflicts in which nations dispute territorial boundaries or a minority actively resists the authority of a state or local government?

The first agricultural communities in South Asia appeared about 4500 years ago along the:

The Deccan Plateau is north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

In what part of India is Mumbai found?

The Taliban have been strong supporters of women's rights in Afghanistan.

Throughout the 1970s,governments in Afghanistan became increasingly:

The vast majority of borrowers in a microcredit arrangement are women.

Precipitation from the summer monsoon is particularly intense in which of the following areas of South Asia?