| A | B |
|---|
| Filial Piety | fulfilling one's duty to one's parents by being respectful to them |
| Edict | A command or decree |
| Enlightenment | A complete understanding of truth |
| Fresco | A picture painted on wet plaster |
| Reincarnation | The belief that the soul lives on after death and returns to life in a new body |
| Peasant | A poor person who lives on and farms the land |
| Rajah | An Indian prince |
| Silk Road | An overland trade route that linked China with Europe |
| Caste | A system in which a person's position is determined by his or her birth into a particular social class |
| Civil Service | The part of bureaucracy that oversees the day to day business of running a government |
| Feudalism | a political system of exchanging land for loyalty and protection |
| Philosopher | a person who studies the meaning of life |
| Missionary | person sent somewhere else to teach about a religion |
| Nirvana | a state of complete bliss that is free from all passion, desire, and suffering |
| Sanskrit | a language of India, first spoken by the ancient Aryans |
