HIST 331, Medieval Mediterranean

Spring 2008

Assignment 1: Map

Due: January 18th, 2008

Identify the following places on the map forms provided.  You get one point for each place correctly identified.  Spelling and accuracy counts towards your grade:

Cities

  • Lisbon
  • Toledo
  • Barcelona
  • Córdoba
  • Marseille
  • Venice
  • Genoa
  • Pisa
  • Rome
  • Ravenna
  • Palermo
  • Athens
  • Constantinople
  • Damascus
  • Jerusalem
  • Alexandria
  • Cairo
  • Tunis
  • Algiers
  • Tripoli
  • Nicosia

Islands

  • Mallorca
  • Minorca
  • Corsica
  • Sardinia
  • Sicily
  • Rhodes
  • Crete
  • Cyprus

Mountain Ranges

  • Pyrenees Mountains
  • The Swiss and French Alps
  • Caucus Mountains
  • Apennine Mountains
  • Atlas Mountains

 

Seas

  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Aegean Sea
  • Ionian Sea
  • Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Adriatic Sea

 

Geographical features and place names:

  • Gibraltar
  • Mount Etna
  • Nile River
  • The Balkans
  • Asia Minor
  • Iberia
  • Cataluńa
  • Bosphorus
  • Hellespont
  • Macedonia

 

Some useful urls:

IAM Map Index
National Geographic View from Above