South Asia a short history by Hugh Tinker

5 comments:

chapter 1 pgs1-13

1. Idon't understand how the immigrants can get away with coming from place to place without being watched.
2. The greek epic Iliad was very meaningful.
3. I don't understand why the different tribes are based on appearence and language and not personality.
4. I wonder how well the punjab soil worked to fertilize crops.
5. It is amazing how not following a certain tribe can benefit on your suvival.

4Questions:

1. Did the name negrito come from Negro?
2. Why were the first asian people known as Negritos?
3. Where did the Mongoloid first begin their tribe?
4. Why were the Dravidians called dark skinned and the Indoaryans lightskinned... That sounds really racist to me.

3 vocabulary words:

1. precursors-One that precedes and indicates, suggests, or announces someone or something to come: Colonial opposition to unfair taxation by the British was a precursor of the Revolution.pg11
2. frontiers-An international border.pg12
3. hymns- in Greece, songs sung in honour of a god or hero.pg12

2literaryterms:

1. foreshadowing: "The winds were violent with current monsoons."(Telling that there will be violent climates in Southeast asia.)pg13
2. simile: "The tribes will come together and unite as one civilisation."pg12

1 overview: The tribes in south asia were very dominant in many cases and made people travel through the hard rock plains in the valleys and some modern people favored other tribes.