The Ancient Greek World
The ancient Greeks invented this type of government, which still exists today.
What is democracy?
The Roman Empire controlled these two rivers, located in the area of ancient Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
This is a large area characterized by its climate and the plants and animals that live in the area.
What is a biome?
Located in the introductory argument, this tells your main argument, or what your writing is all about.
What is a thesis statement?
This is a comparison of two things using the terms "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Through music, he showed us some pretty horrible word crimes.
Who is Weird Al Yankovic?
He conquered much of the Greek world. He was a great leader and created a great empire.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Hadrian's Wall was built here.
Where is ancient England?
This is the home to the largest desert in the world.
What is Antarctica?
These tell the reader where your information came from.
What are citations?
This is when human qualities are given to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
This name is given to the movement where women fought for the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
He studied many different types of governments. He thought the best government was a blend. His ideas influenced how Europe and America formed their own governments.
Who was Aristotle?
This is the mountain located on the eastern coast of Greece. It was believed to be the home of the Ancient Greek gods.
What is Mt. Olympus?
Marshes, treeless areas where plants such as grasses grow, and swamps, an area in which vines and trees grow, are both types of this ecosystem.
What is a wetland?
These words and phrases connect one idea to another.
What are transitions?
This is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
The capital of eastern Roman Empire was named after him.
Who is emperor Constantine?
They lived on the island of Crete, built the first civilization in the area of Greece, and worked with bronze.
Who were the Minoans?
This empire formed after the fall of the Roman Empire, and included much of Greece, Asia Minor, and North Africa.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
An area where fresh water from streams and rivers spills into the ocean is called this.
What is an estuary?
In argumentative writing, this is when you recognize the opposing side's most important counter-argument.
What is the concession?
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This ancient civilization created colossal stone heads.
Who were the Olmec?
Each Greek city-state, called this, was like a tiny independent country, run by nobles, and made up of a city and the surrounding countryside.
What is a polis?
Alexander the Great conquered this empire.
What is Persia?
This zone contains the deepest parts of the ocean. No sunlight reaches here so it is very cold, and home to organisms that get food by eating material that sinks from above, or get energy from thermal vents in the ocean floor.
What is the benthic zone?
This storytelling mode reveals to the reader what the character is thinking.
What is interior monologue?
This phrase has a meaning different from its dictionary meaning.
What is an idiom?
This organ found in many organisms, including the earthworm, is used to grind up rock and organic matter, after it is eaten.
What is the gizzard?