HIST 331, Medieval Mediterranean

Spring 2012

Assignment 1: Map

Due: Monday, January 23rd

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

  1. Lisbon
  2. Toledo
  3. Barcelona
  4. Córdoba
  5. Marseille
  6. Venice
  7. Genoa
  8. Pisa
  9. Rome
  10. Ravenna
  11. Palermo
  12. Athens
  13. Constantinople
  14. Jerusalem
  15. Alexandria
  16. Cairo
  17. Tunis
  18. Algiers
  19. Tripoli
  20. Nicosia

Islands

  1. Mallorca
  2. Minorca
  3. Malta
  4. Corsica
  5. Sardinia
  6. Sicily
  7. Rhodes
  8. Crete
  9. Cyprus

Mountain Ranges

  1. Pyrenees Mountains
  2. The Swiss Alps
  3. Apennine Mountains

 

Seas

  1. Mediterranean Sea
  2. Black Sea
  3. Aegean Sea
  4. Ionian Sea
  5. Tyrrhenian Sea
  6. Adriatic Sea

 

Geographical features and place names:

  1. Gibraltar
  2. Mount Etna
  3. Nile River
  4. Rhône River
  5. Danube River
  6. The Balkans
  7. Asia Minor
  8. Iberia
  9. Cataluña
  10. Bosphorus
  11. Hellespont
  12. Macedonia

 

Some useful urls:

National Geographic View from Above