Chapter 25

Question 0

What countries set up trading colonies in India?

Answer 0

The French, Dutch, British, and Portuguese.

Question 1

The Aryans established small kingdoms on the Ganges Plain and pushed out native Indians called _________ to the South.

Answer 1

Dravidians

Question 2

Who was India’s first prime minister?

Answer 2

Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 3

What fraction of India’s population relies on farming?

Answer 3

2/3

Question 4

What have long been major products of India?

Answer 4

Cotton textiles

Question 5

Most Indians eat a largely vegetarian diet based on rice, legumes, and flatbreads called what?

Answer 5

Chapati/roti

Question 6

How many major languages does the Indian constitution recognize?

Answer 6

18

Question 7

What are the most productive farming areas in Pakistan?

Answer 7

The irrigated portions of the Indus Valley.

Question 8

What is an important economic development?

Answer 8

The introduction of microcredit?

Question 9

What is the Pakistani custom of the seclusion of women called?

Answer 9

Purdah

Question 10

What was the period of British control called?

Answer 10

Raj

Question 11

What was the system of social classes known as?

Answer 11

The caste system

Question 12

What is the land of conflict in South Asia?

Answer 12

Kashmir

Question 13

What is a mountain guide?

Answer 13

A sherpa

Question 14

What is a mandala?

Answer 14

A geometric design

Question 15

What are the six dynasties of Muslim rulers?

Answer 15

The sultan

Question 16

What is nonviolent resistance?

Answer 16

Protest movement without violence

Question 17

What is the main ethnic group in Bhutan?

Answer 17

The Bhote

Question 18

What is chapter 25 on?

Answer 18

The human geography of South Asia

Question 19

Where did Indian civilization begin?

Answer 19

The Indus Valley

Question 20

What empire united most of India in 321 B.C.?

Answer 20

The Mauryan Empire

Question 21

What empire followed the Mauryan and ruled during an age of peace and prosperity?

Answer 21

The Gupta Empire

Question 22

What empire was established in India by Muslims?

Answer 22

The Mughal Empire

Question 23

How did Britain gain control over India’s trade?

Answer 23

The British East India Company

Question 24

What is the period of direct British control that lasted 90 years?

Answer 24

Raj

Question 25

Who used nonviolent resistance to oppose a British rule?

Answer 25

Mohandas Ghandi

Question 26

Where is the world's largest democracy?

Answer 26

India

Question 27

What is a more balanced distribution of land among farmers?

Answer 27

Land reform

Question 28

When did scientists begin introducing better farming techniques?

Answer 28

During the Green Revolution

Question 29

Where are India's main industrial regions centered?

Answer 29

Around Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Ahmadabad

Question 30

What is India's most prosperous city?

Answer 30

Mumbai

Question 31

What is India's high tech center?

Answer 31

Bangalore

Question 32

Where is the Indian film industry based?

Answer 32

Mumbai

Question 33

What are Southern India's four major languages?

Answer 33

Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam

Question 34

What percentage of India is Hindu?

Answer 34

80%

Question 35

What do Hindus call the moral consequences of a person's actions?

Answer 35

Karma

Question 36

What is the Aryan system of social classes?

Answer 36

The caste system

Question 37

What do Hindus call moral duty?

Answer 37

Dharma

Question 38

What South Asian country is the 8th most populous country worldwide?

Answer 38

Bangladesh

Question 39

What is Bangladesh's biggest export?

Answer 39

Jute

Question 40

What policy makes small loans available to entrepreneurs?

Answer 40

Microcredit

Question 41

Who are people who build a business?

Answer 41

Entrepreneurs

Question 42

What are Pakistan's five main ethnic groups?

Answer 42

Punjabis, Sindhis, Pathans, Muhajirs, and Balochs.

Question 43

What is Pakistan's national language?

Answer 43

Urdu

Question 44

What percentage of Bangladesh's population is Hindu?

Answer 44

10%

Question 45

What was the Maldives main economic activity for a while?

Answer 45

Fishing

Question 46

What are Pakistani poetry readings?

Answer 46

Mushairas

Question 47

Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913?

Answer 47

Rabndranath Tagore

Question 48

What is Bangladesh's national anthem?

Answer 48

My Golden Bengal

Question 49

What is a form of devotional singing performed by Muslims?

Answer 49

Qawwali

Question 50

In what mountain range is Mt. Everest found in?

Answer 50

The Himalayas

Question 51

What is a kingdom in which the ruler's powers are limited by a constitution?

Answer 51

A constitutional monarchy

Question 52

At what rate are the forests of Nepal being cut down?

Answer 52

1% per year

Question 53

What percentage of Bhutan is still forested?

Answer 53

70%

Question 54

What is Nepal's capital?

Answer 54

Kathmandu

Question 55

Who founded Buddhism?

Answer 55

Siddhartha Guatama

Question 56

Who are people from the northern plains of India that crossed the narrow strait into Sri Lanka?

Answer 56

Sinhalese

Question 57

Who are Dravidian Hindus from Southern India?

Answer 57

Tamils

Question 58

What do the British call Sri Lanka?

Answer 58

Ceylon

Question 59

What percentage of Sri Lanka's population is made up by Tamils?

Answer 59

18%

Question 60

What religion makes up 75% of Sri Lanka's population?

Answer 60

Sinhalese Buddhists

Question 61

What percentage of Sri Lanka's citizens are Muslim?

Answer 61

7%

Question 62

What is Sri Lanka's capital?

Answer 62

Colombo

Question 63

What is Sri Lanka's national dance?

Answer 63

Kandyan dancing

Question 64

What is the Maldives state religion?

Answer 64

Islam

Question 65

What country has the highest per capita income in South Asia?

Answer 65

Sri Lanka

Question 66

What caused Sri Lanka's tourist industry to collapse?

Answer 66

Civil wars