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| to supply water to farmland |
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| country that separates opposing powers |
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| a wooden bed frame with knotted string in place of a mattress |
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| lack of food or unbalanced diet |
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| small business that uses a person’s house as a place to produce goods |
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| cutting down more trees than are replaced |
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| large family made up of several related families living together |
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| electricity produced by the movement of water |
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| Through ____, Gandhi opposed British rule in a peaceful manner. |
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| Gandhi’s ____ of British cloth was one way in which he peacefully opposed British rule. |
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| Conflicts between Hindu and Muslim groups forced leaders to ____ India into two states. |
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| The Muslim custom according to which women keep their faces covered with a veil when outside of the home is called ____. |
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| Hinduism includes the belief that the soul passes through cycles of ____. |
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| According to the ____, people are born into particular groups with distinct ranks in society. |
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| Many Indian women wear a(n) ____, a brightly colored cloth that is draped over the body like a long dress. |
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| A(n) ____ is a wall of soil and rock built to hold back water. |
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| A person who works in a(n) ____, works at home producing goods to sell in cities and towns. |
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| East Pakistanis were angered that political and economic power was concentrated in West Pakistan. |
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| Why did East and West Pakistan split into two different countries? |
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| They are both home to the highest mountains in the world. |
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| Nepal and Bhutan are similar in which of the following ways? |
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| Most villages do not have electricity or access to television in ___________ |
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| far more densely populated. |
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| In comparison to most large cities around the world, the city of Mumbai is _____ |
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| _______ trained to be a lawyer in England before returning to his country to fight for its independence from England. |
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| provides water for irrigation |
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| The Indus River is important to Pakistan because the river |
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| In 1980 Soviet forces were sent in to help the government contain a revolt in ________. |
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| encouraged the development of the computer industry. |
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| In order to raise the country’s standard of living, the Indian government has |
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| Although _______ studied in England and was influenced by Western ideas, he rejected the way the British ruled India. |
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| Most of the people in India live in |
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| East Pakistanis paid more _____ than West Pakistanis. |
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| each group wanted to move to a country where its religion was the majority religion |
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| After gaining independence, millions of the subcontinent’s Hindus moved to India and many Muslims moved to Pakistan because |
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| Although the ___________ is applied less rigidly in professional circles, it still affects social relationships. |
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| suffers from poverty, overpopulation, and natural disasters. |
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| Bangladesh can be accurately described as a country that |
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| changes in the island’s weather patterns and subsequent droughts. |
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| Clearing more than half of Sri Lanka’s rain forest for farmland and other development has brought about |
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| elevations ranging from 600 feet to more than 20,000 feet. |
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| The physical geography of Nepal and Bhutan consists of |
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| has been particularly successful in __________________ providing economic opportunity in India |
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| Many middle-class Indians went to England to study. There, they were exposed to Western ideas about individual rights and self-government. |
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| In what way did the British rulers set in motion the ideas that brought about their own downfall? |
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