Islamic Golden Age
This legendary library in Baghdad (often linked with major translation work) is remembered as a symbol of scholarship.
The House of Wisdom
A bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353.
The Black Death
What are the three types of irony?
Verbal, situational and dramatic
Where are tropical rainforests mostly located around the world?
Tropical rainforests are located between 10°N and 10°S of the Equator, where temperatures stay near 28°C throughout the year.
or
close to the Equator
Name 5 types of poems you have written this year.
Free verse
Haiku
Cinquain
Acrostic
Slam poem
Concrete poem
Often called “the father of algebra,” he wrote Al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wal-muqabala, transforming how equations were taught and solved.
Al-Khwarizmi
What does SEEP stand for?
Social, economic, environmental and political impacts
A phrase where the whole meaning isn’t the same as the individual words.
An idiom
What are the three main components of a system?
Input, process and output
Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of taste.
gustatory imagery
his scholar calculated latitudes/longitudes with great accuracy and supported a more refined understanding of Earth’s size.
Who was Al-Battani
A powerful civilization that ruled over central and southern Mexico from the 13th to the 16th century.
The Aztecs
The attitude or feeling an author has toward the topic in a book or poem (for example the writing sounds serious, funny, angry, excited, or calm).
Tone
Name 2 indigenous tribes living in the Amazon rainforest.
Awa
Yanomami
Kayapo
Ayoreo
Kawahiva
etc.
A figure of speech which consists in the repetition of an initial consonant sound in two or more nearby words.
alliteration
This architectural feature allowed large buildings to carry weight while supporting grand domes and interiors.
domes and arches
The exchange of goods and people between the Old World and the New World during the Age of Exploration
Columbian Exchange
A literary device that evokes certain feelings for the readers through word choice and setting.
Mood
How do tribes live sustainably? Give two examples.
They use the forest materials responsibly.
They only use what they need.
They integrate naturally with the tropical forest system
They live in balance with their environment.
A pattern of rhyming words in a poem (ABBA, ABAB, AABB)
Rhyme scheme
In The Canon of Medicine, this doctor organized medical knowledge and explained careful patient observation methods that later doctors used for hundreds of years.
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
What three things moved through the Silk Road?
Goods, cattle, diseases, ideas, slaves etc.
When a writer gives small hints about something that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Why is the amount of rainfall high in a tropical rainforest?
Tropical rainforests are so warm and wet that they produce as much as 75 percent of their own rain through evaporation and transpiration.
This poem is a type of poetry where the first letter of each line spells out a word or message when read vertically.
Acrostic poem