| A | B |
|---|
| Himalayas | highest mountains in the world |
| Ganges | river in India |
| plateau | flat mountain |
| monsoon | season of rain |
| well | a place to get water |
| waste water treatment | how cities make water clean |
| trash disposal | take garbage away from houses |
| Indus | river in Pakistan |
| textiles | making cloth |
| Sanskrit | Indian writing |
| raja | Indian prince |
| caste system | rich, common, peasant people in India |
| reincarnation | people are alive again and again |
| Buddha | leader of religion in India |
| silk | a very soft cloth made by worms |
| Silk Road | road from China to Mesopotamia |
| Antioch | a port city in Syria |
| pilgrim | person who travels to a religious place |
| aristocracy | rich people with a lot of land and power |
| supernatural forces | magic in nature |
| Confucius | famous teacher in China |
| regime | the government in power now |
| compass | shows north, south, east, west |
| printing | a machine to write on paper |
| gunpowder | explodes |
