South and Southeast Asia Crossword

An alliance that promotes economic growth and peace in the region
Occurs when a minority group gives up its culture and adopts the majority group's culture
Was the site of U.S. atomic-weapons tests
Refuse to purchase or use
A country separating opposing powers
This system is a social hierarchy in which people are born into a particular group that has been given a distinct rank in society (India)
A wooden bed frame with knotted string in place of a mattress
The dried meat of coconuts
A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system
A French colony made up of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, suffered decades of turmoil
The growth of industry in a country or a society
Was a powerful mandala that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries in what is now Cambodia.
A Tibetan style of Buddhism, which includes the use of mandalas —geometric designs that are symbols of the universe and aid in meditation
Winds that blow dry air from the northeast during the winter and carry moisture from the south west in the summer
Process of purchasing goods and services from outside vendors rather than producing the same goods or providing the same services within the organization
Divide into parts
A colony founded with the purpose of housing prisoners
Belief that the souls of human beings and animals go through a series of births, deaths, and rebirths
Brightly colored dress
the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma, characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam
State ruled by a sultan
A tropical storm that occurs in the western Pacific
Treaty giving Britain control over New Zealand in 1840