3 & 4 South Asia-Human Environment Interaction and India

This river is sacred to Hindus because they worship the river as a goddess and believe it can heal. Hindus bathe in it, drink the water, scatter the ashes of the dead on it, and worship along it.

• The Nile River

• The Ganges River

• The Congo River

• Indus River

_____?_____, are high water level brought by a cyclone that swamps low-lying areas.

• Flood surges

• Monsoon surges

• Storm surges

• Typhoon Surge

What are some of the effects of the Ganges River Pollution?

• Brings better Health

• Helps control raw sewage

• Causes illnesses

• Helps the eco-system

Cottage Industries

• Mary Carmen works in a factory in which she must complete a minimum of 250 cell phone orders

• Aaron works at his grandmother's home, helping her sew cloth dolls by hand

• Genesis works at a beauty shop, painting people's hair red all-day.

• Marcela works at the mechanic shop, installing lowrider hydraulic kits.

British Control & Cultural Changes: Once the British gained control of India, they also introduced many new ideas and concepts. What was NOT one of them?

• language

• New type of government

• education

• Christianity

Estuary

• an area at the end of a river that is in between land and the ocean. (Also known as an arm of the sea).

• an area at the end of a river that is in between land and the ocean. (Also known as an leg of the sea).

• an area at the end of a river that is in between land and the ocean. (Also known as an finger of the sea).

• an area at the end of a stream that is in between land and the ocean. (Also known as an arm of the sea).

European traders came to India, looking for ​ (a)   ,and other goods not available in Europe.

• Spices, Cloth
• Gold , Jewels
• Raw materials, New trade partner,
• New forms of weapons

Gandhi envisioned a world where all cultures could mix and accept one another. What key vocabulary term is he speaking about?

• Outsourcing

• Caste System

• Globalization

• Polytheism

(a)   Is the redistribution of land by the government from landholders to people without land to use for agriculture.

• Land Reform
• Land Surplus
• Land Revolution
• Land Give Away

The Caste System was originally a division of ​ (a)   ; it eventually became a ​ (b)   system of social class. Lead to ​ (c)   .

• labor
• birth-based
• discrimination
• men
• women
• culture
• social improvements