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Section 1
(50 cards)
Baghdad, Mosul
Two modern day cities of Mesopotamia
Black Sea
What sea is bordered by Ukraine, Crimea, Russia and Turkey? Choose: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea
Ethiopian Highlands, Lake Victoria
Where does the Nile River begin?
Strait of Gibraltar
What body of water is at the arrow? Choose: Strait of Gibraltar, Bosporus Strait, Dardanelles Strait
Caspian Sea
Which sea is bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Azerbijan? Choose: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea
Eratosthenes
Greek librarian in Alexandria, Egypt who calculated the circumference of the Earth
Iraq
What country is represented in this map?
Aral Sea
Which sea is bordered by Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan? Choose: Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Aral Sea
Egypt
Country of Nile delta
Mediterranean Sea
What body of water?
Persian Gulf
What body of water?
Portugal
The Madeira Islands are part of which country? Choose: Portugal, Spain
Red Sea
What body of water?
Ethiopia
What country is represented in this map?
Dardanelles Strait
What is at the starred arrow? Choose: Strait of Gibraltar, Bosporus Strait, Dardanelles Strait
Equator
What line is represented in this picture?
Tigris, Euphrates
rivers in Mesopotamia
Aegean Sea
Your family is on vacation on a Greek Island here. What body of water are you swimming in? Choose: Aegean Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea
Portugal
The Azores are a group of volcanic islands belonging to which country? Choose: Portugal, Spain
Henry the Navigator
Portuguese royal who funded explorations of the African coast and Atlantic islands in the 1400s. Choose: Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, Ibn Battuta
strait
A narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water. Choose: isthmus, strait
Italy
Which country?
Bosporus Strait
What is at the arrow? Choose: Strait of Gibraltar, Bosporus Strait, Dardanelles Strait
Marco Polo
Venetian merchant who traveled to China in the late 1200s. Choose: Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, Ibn Battuta
Mediterranean Sea
Into what body of water does the Nile River empty?
Zagros Mountains
Mountain range in Iran
Africa
On which continent is the Nile River?
Greece
What country (in red)?
Tropic of Cancer
What line is represented in this picture?
Egypt
What country is represented in this map?
isthmus
A narrow strip of land, with water on both sides, connecting two larger masses of land. Choose: isthmus, strait
Crusades
Series of Middle Age wars between Christians and Muslims
Adriatic Sea
What body of water? Chose: Aegean Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Adriatic Sea
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer of the 1300s who traveled throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Choose: Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, Ibn Battuta
Spain, Morocco
What two COUNTRIES border the Strait of Gibraltar?
Alps
Mountain range in northern Italy
Tanzania
What country is represented in this map?
Atlantic
What OCEAN borders the Iberian Peninsula? Choose: Atlantic, Pacific
Jericho, Babylon
Two ancient cities of Mesopotamia
Tyrrhenian Sea
What body of water? Choose: Aegean Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Tropic of Capricorn
What line is represented in this picture?
Spain
The Canary Islands are part of which country? Choose: Portugal, Spain
Lake Nasser
What lake is located in the middle of the Nile River?
Gibraltar, Tangier
What two CITIES border the Strait of Gibraltar on our maps?
Azores
Which islands are circled here in the Atlantic Ocean? Choose: Azores, Madeiras, Canaries
archipelago
What is a group of islands called?
Arabian Sea
What body of water?
Crimea
What is the country that sticks out into the Black Sea?
Iraq
modern day country located in Mesopotamia
longitude
Lines running north and south on a globe
Section 2
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