Unit 7 South Asia

3. seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons
6. The highest mountains in the world, which stretch along northern India, separating it from the rest of Asia
7. A group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996
8. government divided between national and state powers
10. A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake

1. Located in India, this river is considered sacred to Hindus and is used for spiritual cleansing, funeral rites, and other Hindu rituals
2. Constitutional authority is shared by three different branches of government
3. Great revolutionary who led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience.
4. practice of American companies hiring overseas workers to do certain jobs
5. A region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent; India and Pakistan dispute control of it.
9. a refusal to buy goods in protest