Writing basics
Proper names of people, places or things must be this when you are writing.
What is capitalized?
If I am Venetian I am from this former republic and naval superpower.
What is Venice?
Present day Turkey.
What is Anatolia?
The distribution of people away from their homeland.
What is diaspora?
This river separates New Jersey from Pennsylvania.
What is the Delaware River?
When writing a response to an open-ended question, you must provide this to back up your claim and prove what you are claiming historically, without just requoting the sources.
What is evidence?
This is the country where the York pogroms occurred in 1190.
What is England?
This is the sea where Venice is located.
What is Adriatic Sea?
This was and still is the majority religion followed in India.
What Hinduism
This state university was founded in 1766 and was originally called Queen's College.
What is Rutgers University?
These type of pronouns should not ever be included in your open ended responses.
What are personal pronouns?
In the time period of the 12th through even the 19th century when referring to Rome, this is who/what were being referenced.
What is the papacy/the pope and the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church?
The peninsula is presently divided into north and south politically, and is located to the northeastern border of China.
What is Korea?
This geographic region of India was never fully conquered by the Mughals.
What were the southern region/kingdoms?
This is the river that separates New Jersey from New York City.
What is the Hudson River?
This should not be the first two words of the last paragraph in an essay response. It is redundant because it is the last paragraph.
What is "In conclusion"?
Clergy members that lead masses and have titles such as friar, Franciscan, Dominican and others refers to these people who were also missionaries and members of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. Much of the writings we have from Europe at that time are from them because they were among the small literate population.
Who are priests?
This is one of the four Scandinavian countries.
What are Norway, Denmark, Sweden and sometimes Finland?
These were the first Europeans to arrive entirely by sea making their way around Africa to reach India and trade directly for spices.
Who were the Portuguese?
These were the first Europeans to claim New Jersey as a colony.
Who were the Dutch?
Doing this, especially in excess when you are writing a response is not an automatically effective way to write and use evidence.
What is quoting?
This is a synonym for aristocracy. In Europe these people were given special rights, privileges, control over land, tax exemption, and political representation.
Who are nobles/nobility?
This is the region where Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas (as well as many other countries/islands) are located.
What are the Caribbean?
This is where Sunni Muslims go for the Hajj (pilgrimage), it is where Mohammed was from and is one of the five pillars of Islam.
What is Mecca?
This state university used to be called Glassboro College and was founded as a "normal school" (teacher's college) in 1923 in south Jersey.
What is Rowan University?