Exam 8: South Asia

What major mountain range has been created by the collision of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate?

The name given to the new agricultural tools and techniques that boosted agricultural productivity in South Asia beginning in the late 1960s is ___________________.

By what year is India expected to surpass China as the world's most populous country?

The status of women in South Asia has been somewhat increased as the region moves toward greater democracy.

The country that experienced an uprising of Maoist revolutionaries against the incumbent monarchy in the late 1990s was:

The vast majority of South Asians live in:

Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northwest India are naturally moist regions.

The practice of purdah is especially common among aboriginal peoples and people of low castes.

The religious majority of Sri Lanka and Bhutan is composed of:

Which of the following is true of village life in South Asia?

Britain tried to make Afghanistan a ____________ between India and Russia.

Which of the following is NOT a valid explanation for Sri Lanka's much lower rate of population growth than Pakistan's?

The Tamils of Sri Lanka are:

Hindus believe that eating cows brings them closer to the ultimate divinity.

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?

The major religion of India is:

What form of protest focuses on the nonviolent violation of laws?

The money given by a South Asian groom to his bride's family is called the _____________.

Conservative Islamist movement that took hold of the government of Afghanistan in the 1990s.

Microcredit, often through the Grameen Bank, is an innovation that has not yet benefited women.