Elantris Help

I‘m 43 pages in to the book and I‘m getting kinda overwhelmed by the many names of the religions, kingdoms, cities and people (not to mention there’s apparently a slang that uses some words that has no translations).

My question is do I just push through it or search every new thing I encounter? Because so far I‘ve been getting so little explanations. I don’t want to spoil anything for myself but also don’t want to keep reading without knowing much