A small area watered by springs and wells (a relief from the desert dryness).
What is an oasis?
100
People who spoke a different language than the Romans.
Who is a Barbarians?
100
Colored fragments of glass or quartz imbedded in plaster and some elaborate pieces illustrate human forms.
What is a mosaic?
200
The place that a scene in piece of literature happens.
What is setting?
200
To send or carry lightly over land or water.
What is wafted?
200
An open air market.
What is a bazaar?
200
A succession of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
200
The buying and selling of goods.
What is commerce?
300
Figurative language term that indicates a person is something else. For example: Mr. Flagan is a Tiger.
What is a metaphore?
300
The outline of a solid figure as cast by it's shadow.
What is a silhouette?
300
A muslim house of worship.
What is a mosque?
300
In the ancient Roman Empire, any of the lands outside Italy conquered and ruled by Romans.
What is a province?
300
The quality in a society that comes from a concern for what is regarded as excellence in arts, letters, manners, and academic achievements.
What is Culture?
400
The attitude the writer has toward the subject they are writing about.
What is known as tone in literature?
400
A large male crab, especially of Chesapeak Bay.
What is a Jimmy?
400
The civil and religious ruler of a Muslim state.
What is a caliph?
400
What was the name for the Eastern Roman Empire after the Roman Empire split when Theodosius died in 395 AD.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
400
Married to the Byzantine Empress this Emperor changed the name of an old Greek trading town "Byzantinium" renaming it "New Rome which is ________________'s City.
What was Constantinople?
500
The way the writer wants the reader to feel emotionally when they read the literature.
What is mood?
500
A small boat.
What is a dingy
500
The belief in only one god.
What is monotheism?
500
A fierce group of nomadic warriors from Asia who devastated and controlled large parts of eastern and cental Europe they exercised their greatest power under their leader Attila.
Who were the Huns?
500
In 528 the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire gave 10 men the task of condensing the 1,600 books of classic Roman laws into this well organized system of laws.