Afghanistan Pakistan India Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh Sri Lanka.

SOUTH ASIAAfghanistan

Pakistan

India

Nepal

Bhutan

Bangladesh

Sri Lanka

AFGHANISTANPhysical Geography:

-Three regions:MountainsValleysDeserts

KHYBER PASS

A FEW FACTS….

Ethnic Diversity Terrorism and War

Two official languages: How could this cause a problem?

The groups in Afghanistan have conflicting views on the religion of Islam.

Taliban is located in Afghanistan.

What is the Taliban? Who was their leader?

Al-Qaida told Muslims to kill Americans.

What happened September 11, 2001?

PAKISTAN Physical Geography:

Pakistan is made up of three different regions: The Hindu Kush Thar Desert Baluchistan Plateau Indus River

Map

A FEW FACTS…

Irrigation and Electricity

Indus River brings life to Pakistan AND hydroelectric power.

What is hydroelectric power?

Tarbela Dam is an embankment dam.

What is an embankment dam?

National Challenges

Islam is the national religion.

Punjabi is the most spoken language.

For 50 years Pakistan and India have fought over the area of Kashmir.

BANGLADESH Bangladesh is a powerful delta formed

by three powerful rivers.GangesBrahmaputraMeghna

A FEW FACTS…Challenging

ClimateOverpopulatio

n Bangladesh is a

tropical wet climate. Lots of: monsoons Wind Rainfall Floods

Bangladesh is constantly trying to rebuild after floods.

9th most populated country in the world.

131 million people What does

overpopulation cause? Malnutrition

NEPAL AND BHUTAN These two

countries are located in the tallest places in the world HIMALAYAS, and the low places of the world.

A FEW FACTS… Nepal is 90% Hindu Bhutan is 75% Buddhist

SRI LANKA

A FEW FACTS…Environmental Change

Social Unrest

Sri Lanka has a tropical climate

They grow coconuts, rubber, and tea

Sri Lanka grows 1/8th of the worlds tea.

Deforestation has happen on Sri Lanka…What is deforestation?

Two group of people live in Sri Lanka… Sinhalese Tamils

They often fight over religion or the different languages they speak.

Sri Lanka gained it’s independence from Britain in 1948.

INDIA

THE EUROPEANS INFLUENCE: WHY DID THEY COME?

1) To trade 2) Expand their empire 3) Spread Christianity

THE BRITISH RULE INDIA… The British defeat France for India.

Why do they both want India?

Do you think the Indians in India like having foreigners in there country? Why?

BRITAIN CONTROLS INDIAGood things

Britain has done:

-ended slavery-improved schools-build railroad

network

Bad things Britain has done:

-Indians could not be in the government or army.

-Indians had lower level positions in the government.

-Indians lost their jobs.

INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE

“At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we

step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a

nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of IndiaIndependence came to India on August 15, 1947.

MOHANDAS GANDHI-Indians gained a

strong sense of Nationalism.

-Many Indians traveled to England for a good education.

-Gandhi studies to be lawyer.

MAHATMA (THE GREAT SOUL) Nonviolent

resistance Peace and Love

were more powerful weapons then violence.

Led a boycott against the British.

MUSLIMS VS. HINDUS“THE PARTITION OF INDIA” To avoid civil war the British divided the

colony into two parts: India and Pakistan. (known as the partition of India)

India was mostly Hindu Pakistan was mostly Muslim

People flee to the country where their religion was dominate….there was much violence. Gandhi was killed during this violent period

WHAT ARE SOME FACTS OF HINDUISM? 80% of Indians are Hindu They believe in reincarnation They practice the caste system Meditation is commonly used. Cows and the Ganges river are

considered sacred. The river is believed to purify the soul.

THE CASTE SYSTEM Brahmins:

Teachers and judges Kshatriyas: warriors Vaisyas:

Farmers Sudras:

Craft workers and laborers

Untouchables: Do the “unclean”

work.

INDIA CULTURE: FESTIVALSHoli is one of their holidays. It celebrates

spring and the triumph of good over evil.

RATS!

Rat’s are considered sacred in India.

The rats are eating the grain supply of India.

Special parks have been constructed to house the rats.

There are millions and millions of rats!!