Packet Five,
Southern Asia

Essential Questions

1. How does South Asia influence the rest of the world?

2. What religious challenges are facing South Asia?

3. What is the history of human-environment interaction in South Asia? How does that history affect the modern world?

4. What are the regions in South Asia? What typifies each one?

Description 

We are going to take a very brief look at the nations in the region, their current conflicts, and their modern history.

India is by far the most populated nation in South Asia, and we learned a little about that nation during the previous packet. For this packet we will take a brief look at the other nations in South Asia.

Objectives

Students will identify and describe the key vocabulary words and essential questions relating to Southwest Asia.

Instructions

See the printed assignment for the first part of this packet.

Online Files for this Assignment

Click here to go to the Britannica article about Asia. Then scroll down to the sections about South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Southwest Asia for help with this assignment. Here is another one.

Click here for the high resolution physical map of southern Asia.

Click here for a political map of southern Asia.

To view a series of very good maps of Southwest Asia, click here.

A printed copy will be posted soon