HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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finding ways to eliminate human suffering
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Traded along the Silk Road
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practicing nonviolence and giving up worldly desires
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steep mountain ranges
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Himalayan Mountains form a natural barrier between India and China. The Himalayas include nine of the world’s ten tallest mountain peaks (including the very tallest, Mount Everest). No other mountain range in the world is as high as the Himalayas!
Detailed explanation-2: -Among the most dramatic and visible creations of plate-tectonic forces are the lofty Himalayas, which stretch 2, 900 km along the border between India and Tibet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Typically, a convergent plate boundary-such as the one between the Indian Plate and the Eurasian Plate-forms towering mountain ranges, like the Himalaya, as Earth’s crust is crumpled and pushed upward.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Himalayas end at the Brahmaputra river in the east, covering much of Arunachal Pradesh.
Detailed explanation-5: -The northern-most range is known as the Great or Inner Himalayas or the Himadri. It is the most continuous range consisting of the loftiest peaks with an average height of 6, 000 metres. It contains all prominent Himalayan peaks. The folds of the Great Himalayas are asymmetrical in nature.