Create a map with your group that shows a layout of the portion of the World that will be discussed during this unit. Poster board will be provided for you and your group to draw your map.
Your map will need to be labeled with key points of interests and events that took place during the unit covered with a short explanation of the importance of each place to the unit covered. Below is a list of events and points of interests that need to be included in your map. Please go beyond this list in adding additional important information Requirements:
* = label only farthest points |
Arabian Desert*
Egypt Euphrates River Exodus of the Israelite |
Great Pyramids of Giza
Indus River Israel Jerusalem |
Mediterranean Sea*
Mesopotamia Neander Valley Nile Rive |
Red Sea
Tigris River Yellow River |
Aegean Sea
Athens Battle of Aegospotami Battle of Marathon |
Battle of Plateau
Battle of Salamis Battle of Thermopylae Crete |
Ionian Revolt
Macedonia Mediterranean Sea Mount Olympus |
Persian Empire
Route of Alexander the Great Sparta Troy |
Aegean Sea*
Battle of Actium Battle of Adrianople Battle of Cannae Black Sea* Britannia Carthage Constantinople |
Corsica
Gaul Germania Hadrian’s Wall Hannibal’s Route Hispania Jerusalem Mediterranean Sea |
Palestine
Pompeii Rome Rubicon River Sardinia Sicily Tiber River |
Invasions:
Franks Huns Ostrogoths Vandals Visogoths |
Alps Mountains*
Battle of Hastings Battle of Tours Black Sea* Byzantine Empire |
Constantinople
Kingdom of England (1160) Kingdom of France (1160) Holy Roman Empire Italian Campaign |
London
Mediterranean Sea* Paris* Pyrenees Mountains* Rome |
Route of Islamic Conquest
Strait of Gibraltar* Viking Routes |
Acre
Antioch Avignon, France Battle of Agincourt Battle of Castilian Battle of Crecy Battle of Poitiers |
Black Sea*
Black Death Year by Year Byzantine/Ottoman Empire China Constantinople/Istanbul Egypt* England |
France
Jerusalem Mediterranean Sea* Mongol Empire 1294 Orleans Paris* Rome |
Route of the Crusades (1-4)
Route of Batu Khan Route of Marco Polo Silk Road Spain (Castile/Aragon) Venice |
Atlantic Ocean*
Britain Florence France Italy Jamestown |
Mediterranean Sea*
Milan Pacific Ocean* Philippines Portugal Roanoke Island |
Spain
Treaty of Tordesillas Triangle Trade (diagram) Venice |
Voyage of
Bartholomew Dias Christopher Columbus Ferdinand Magellan Francisco Pizarro Henry the Navigator Hernando Cortéz Vasco da Gama |
Atlantic Ocean*
Britain France Glorious Revolution |
Holy Roman Empire
Mediterranean Sea* Netherlands Ottoman Empire |
Portugal
Rome Route of the Spanish Armada Spain |
Switzerland
Thirty Years’ War Wittenberg |
Atlantic Ocean*
Battle of Austerlitz Battle of Leipzig Battle of Lexington and Concord Battle of Montreal |
Battle of Quebec
Battle of Saratoga Battle of Waterloo Battle of Yorktown Britain |
Boston Tea Party
France Louisiana Territory Mediterranean Sea* Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia |
Parisians Storming of Versailles
Russia Spain Storming of the Bastille Versailles |
1848 Revolution sites
Africa 1914 South East Asia 1914 Atlantic Ocean Black Sea Britain |
Crimean War
France Franco-Austrian War Franco-Prussian War Germany Hudson River |
Ireland
Italy Kitty Hawk, NC Liverpool, England Manchester, England Mediterranean Sea |
Menlo Park
New York City, NY Pittsburg, PA Russia Vienna |
Allies/Central Powers
Atlantic Ocean* Balkan Mountains* Battle of Gallipoli Battle of Jutland Battle of Marne Battle of Passendale |
Battle of Somme
Battle of Verdun Battle of Ypres Belgium Black Sea* Britain Eastern Front |
France
Germany Ireland Italy Mediterranean Sea* Mexico Moscow |
Ottoman Empire
Russia Sarajevo, Bosnia Schlieffen Plan Sinking of the Lusitania United States Western Front |
Allies/Axis Powers
Atlantic Ocean Auschwitz Battle of Britain Battle of Coral Sea Battle of Iwo Jima Battle of Kursk |
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Battle of Midway Battle of Normandy (D-Day) Battle of Okinawa Battle of Stalingrad Belgium Britain |
Dunkirk
France Germany Hiroshima Italy Japan Leningrad (St. Petersburg) |
Manchuria
Mediterranean Sea Nagasaki Operation Barbarossa Pearl Harbor Soviet Union Vichy France Yalta Conference |
38th Parallel
Arab Spring (Nations Involved) Britain Berlin |
Cuba
East/West Germany Israel New York (U.N. Headquarters) |
NATO nations
North Korea Potsdam Conference South Korea |
Soviet Union
United States Vietnam |