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Grade 7 Geography Unit from Chap 18 of The text "World Geography and Cultures"
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Unit 8 South Asia
Chapter 18 India and Its Neighbors
Lesson 3
The People and Culture
Core Words
Hinduism 印度教reincarnation 转世
caste 种姓Hindi 印地语
untouchable 贱民overpopulation 人口过剩
Extension words
dharma 教规,律法karma 命运Sikhism 锡克教Jainism 耆那教Kashmir 克什米尔
Background
Flag & Emblem
Geography Area: 3,287,590 sq km
– World 7th largest
Land use:– arable land: 54.4%
– permanent crops: 2.74%
– other: 42.86% (2001)
Natural hazards:– Droughts
– flash floods
– widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains
– severe thunderstorms
– earthquakes
What Culture Are in This Region?
What Languages Do the People Speak?
Languages:– English – Hindi (the national language ) – 14 other official languages: Bengali,
Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Dzongkha, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit
– Sinhalese
Religion-Multi-religion Hinduism (80.5%) Islam (13.4%) Christianity (2.3%) Sikhism (1.9%) Buddhism Jainism
What Is Hinduism?
印度斯坦人
Hindu
Vedas吠陀经
Caste 种姓