Chapter 9 Key Term Quiz

South Asia
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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.

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

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

A city that is the largest in the country and is the center of economic and political life.

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

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

The highly disputed, militarized region that separates Southeast Pakistan and Northern India.

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.

Name given to the globally influential movie industry that dominates Indian culture, as well as the movie making complex in Mumbai where many productions originate.

A sect of Islam distinct from Shia in that its adherents do not believe that the succession of the Prophet Mohammed should be hereditary and follow family bloodlines.

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

The division of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947.

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