ShmoopTube

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by independence

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you know there's an entire day dedicated to it that celebrates the moment an alien [Alien spacecraft hovers above White House]

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spacecraft shot a laser directly into the White House maybe remember Will

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Smith? well here's our question the geographic region that India and

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Pakistan have fought to control since independent is and here are your options

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Right well the Indus Valley

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now situated in Pakistan and Northwest India was an important location for what [Indus Valley circled on a map]

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we now call the Indus Valley Civilisation, at its peak the

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civilization had over 5 million people and used the Indus script which to this

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day is still undecipherable making it about as confusing as your dad's [Woman shopping in grocery store]

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handwritten shopping list however the civilization collapsed

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around 1700 CE so India and Pakistan have no reason to fight over this site

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we can eliminate A...Sri Lanka isn't the correct answer either control the island

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is intubated by India in Pakistan because it has its own internal debate [People performing martial arts moves]

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between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamil community it probably

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be a waste of time to get involved there...

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finally the bay of Bengal which has been a source of dispute for a number of

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countries, well the biggest bay in the world is the home to countless sea ports [Ships sailing on Bay of Bengal]

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and is a major economic center nonetheless the fact that the bay of

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bengal doesn't directly border Pakistan means it's never brought India and

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pakistan to full-on fisticuffs, beside who would really want to fight over bay

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that's well known for being covered by the Asian brown cloud of air pollution [Brown cloud of pollution covers Bay of Bengal]

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made up of smoked industrial discharge we're too mature to make a

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brown cloud joke so we'll just let you imagine one for yourself that leaves us

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with Kashmir a region historically and continuously disputed by Pakistan to the [Arrow points to Pakistan on map]

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Northwest India to the south and center and China to the east all three

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countries think their claim is the correct one while refusing to [Indonesia, China and Pakistan sitting on a field]

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acknowledge the other kind of like when you're sure you've had one last

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slice of pizza than everyone else but they're sure they've had one more

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well it's not even about the pizza it's a principle of it and you already made a [Group of people eating pizza]

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sacrifice and let them order mushrooms when you don't even really like

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mushrooms like what do people like about mushrooms anyway you know how they're

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grown yeah all right well wait what were you talking about oh yeah

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Kashmir right answer is Kashmir... Led Zeppelin wrote a great song about it [Barack Obama talking to Led Zeppelin]

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should listen..

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