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Geography
Unit 1
Unit 2
Language
100
This body of water means "Middle Earth"
What is Mediterranean Sea?
100
music, funerals, art, and language are examples of THESE.
What are cultural universals?
100
THIS king of Crete made his way into Greek myths and legends.
Who is King Minos?
100
"Love is an ocean" is an example of THIS type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
200
This country has the Nile River running through it.
What is Egypt?
200
In the Paleolithic, skull sizes got ____________ over time.
What is bigger?
200
THIS important geographic feature made the Myceneans powerful and rich.
What is the Isthmus?
200
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of THIS type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
300
The Tigris and Euphrates are MOSTLY in THIS modern day country.
What is Iraq?
300
Gilgamesh was a king from THIS early Mesopotamian civilization.
What is Sumer (or Uruk)?
300
These indo-Europeans had iron weapons.
Who were the Dorians?
300
"He's a real Romeo with the ladies" is an example of THIS type of figurative language.
What is an allusion?
400
This is the name of the sea with 1000 islands between the coast of Ionia and Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea?
400
THIS was the only monotheistic civilization in Mesopotamia.
What is Israel?
400
The Myceneans stole THIS kind of writing from the Minoans.
What is Linear B?
400
A comma and a FANBOYS word are needed to join 2 of THESE.
What are independent clauses?
500
This is the body of water that Xerxes built his pontoon bridge across.
What is the Hellespont or Dardanelles Strait?
500
Scientists believe there really was a huge flood. THIS body of water is what they think flooded, killing thousands of ancient farmers.
What is the Black Sea?
500
Jason, from the myth, had to take back the throne from his evil uncle _______.
Who was Pelias?
500
A sentence with at least 3 clauses, containing a mixture of both dependent and independent clauses, is called THIS.
What is a compound-complex sentence?