| A | B |
| Exploration | Travelling to find a country to learn about it |
| Perception | A way of seeing things |
| Flat Earth | A theory from the past about the configration of the earth |
| New World | The world beyond the known world and discovered in more recent times |
| Colonisation | The process by which countries gain political power over other countries |
| Interactions | The meeting together of two cultures |
| Impacts | The concequences of the meeting of two or more cultures |
| Nations | The community of people forming a sovereign state |
| Societies | Organised and independent communities |
| Partition of Africa | The division of Africa by European powers |
| Ethnicity | Group of people sharing a common nationaliry of tradition |
| Minority | A relatively small group of people deffering from others |
| Treaties | A formal agreement between nations/people regarding sovereignty or control |
| Indigenous people | First people in a land |
| Tangata Whenua | Indigenous people of Aotearoa/NZ |
| Assimilation | The absorption of one group of people into the cultures and tradions of another |
| Integration | A combination of two groups of people into one nation |
| Rejection | A refusal to accept a group of people or proposal |
| Culture | Customs or achievements of a particular group of people |
| Known World | The world as it was known in Ancient Times |