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| a wind pattern in which in summer months warm, wet air coming from the ocean brings copious rainfall, and in winter, cool, dry air moves from the continental interior toward the ocean |
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| tropical cyclone or hurricane |
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| The DMZ is a temporary political boundary formed by the Korean Armistice of 1953 (the demilitarized zone) |
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| (or ger) a round, heavy felt tent stretched over a collapsible wilow lattice frame used by nomadic herders in northwestern China and Mongolia |
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| a program based on peer support that makes very small loans available to very low income entrpreneurs. |
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| an archconservative Islamist movement that gained control of the government of Afghanistan in the mid-1990s |
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| an ideology, based largely on the writings of the German revolutionary Karl Marx, that calls on workers to unite overthrow capitalist and establish an eglitarian society where workers share what they produce |
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| process whereby natural forests are cleared through logging and/or burning, either to use the timber or to replace the area for alternative uses. |
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| function of the number of individuals compared to the relevant resources, such as the water and essential nutrients they need to survive |
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| a major world religion practiced by approximately 900 million people, 800 million of whom live in India |
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| a religion of Asia that originated in northern India in the sixth century b.c.e. as a reinterpretaion of Hinduism; it emphasizes madest living and peaceful self-reflection leading to enlightenment. |
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| Chinese philosophy that teaches that the best organizational model for the state and society is a hierarchy based on the patriarchal family. |
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| British Colonization of India |
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- British controlled most of South Asia from the 1830s throughh 1947
- influencing the region politically, socially, and econmically
- little economic development did take place in South Asia was allowed only if it benefited Britain
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The breakup following Indian independence that established Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan
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- Young merchant working in S. Africa
- Protested the treatment of Indians and Africans by the white South africans
- PEACE
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