Chapter 9 Key Term Quiz

South Asia
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An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

A social system created by Hinduism and reinforced by the British in India, that is made up of social categories that determine not only position in the social hierarchy but also proportionate occupation, behaviors and mores such as eligible marriage partners.

Involves utilizing fields and gardens over a wide area through rotation in time, as opposed to the fixed cultivation that is necessarily dominant in the densely populated South Asian region, for example.

Temporary unauthorized settlements on government land in Karachi, Pakistan.

The conflict between the British and Russian Empires in the nineteenth century for dominance in Afghanistan and South Central Asia.

A form of Buddhism based on the oldest known records of Buddha's teaching. Dominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

Used to describe a state in which there is not enough reliable, affordable and nutritious food available.

A seasonal wind in South East Asia that blows from land to sea in October to May (dry monsoon ) and from sea to land on May to September bringing rain (wet monsoon).

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

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