| A | B |
| Aryans | the earliest immigrants |
| Sanskrit | the Arayan language |
| Vedas | the Arayans holiest books |
| Hinduism | what the Arayan religion developed into |
| reincarnation | rebirth into a new body after death |
| caste | a group within a social class |
| untouchables | low class of people who do all of the unpleasant jobs in Indian society |
| Buddhism | religion based on Gautama's teachings |
| rajahs | name of princes that ruled over large city-states |
| assasination | a murder for political reason |
| turning point | is a time of important change |
| missionaries | religious teachers |
| Arabic numerals | another name for the based-10 system of numbers 1-9 and 0 |
| inoculation | giving a person a mild form of a disease so they won't geet sick from the more serious form |