CERC Writing
Ancient China
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Ancient India
100
Your opinion on a topic
What is a claim?
100
A monarchy
What is a government ruled by a king/queen/emperor?
100
The largest urban area in Ancient Greece
What is Athens?
100
This mountain range that kept invaders out of the Roman Empire
What are the Alps?
100
An era of peace and prosperity in a civilization like the Gupta Monarchy
What is a Golden Age?
200
The who, what, when, where, and why of a document.
What is Historical Context?
200
The two rivers that fertilized the soil of eastern China
What are the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers?
200
The Ancient Greek invention that irrigates farms on hillsides
What is the Archimedes Screw?
200
A Roman art form from the Pax Romana
What are frescos, sculpture, or mosaics?
200
This mountain range worked as a natural barrier to protect India from invaders
What are the Himalayas?
300
(Augustus, 14 C.E.)
What is a citation (Author's name, year of creation)?
300
The "First Emperor" of China who unified the Warring States and made the Terracotta Warriors
Who is Emperor Qin?
300
A type of government Ancient Greece had before a democracy
What is oligarchy, monarchy, or tyranny?
300
Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, The city of Jerusalem in Israel/Palestine?
What are 3 civilizations we've learned about this year that Rome conquered?
300
The 2 main religions of the Gupta Empire?
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
400
The contents of a conclusion sentence
What is restating the claim in new words?
400
The Ancient Chinese belief that doing nothing is the best way to lead people to peace and harmony.
What is Taoism?
400
This Athenian general who said that in Greece's democracy, "the laws, they afford equal justice to all"
Who is Pericles?
400
The direct translation of "Augustus" from Latin to English
What is "great" or "magnificent"?
400
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9
What are inventions of Indian mathematicians?
500
The 4 sentences of the reasoning formula.
What are paraphrase, inference, connect to claim, and so what?
500
The title of the person in the Chinese bureaucracy who maintained law and order in the capital
What is the "Bearer of the Mace"?
500
The "instruction guide" for a government
What is a Constitution?
500
Document containing the quote, “Putting to death... of any man who has not been convicted, whosoever he might be, is forbidden.”
What are the Twelve Tables (specifically Table IX.6)?
500
A way to describe much of the land of India that is very spread out and good for the cultivation of plants like cotton and spices
What is rural?