Mental Map Quiz #1 - Eastern Hemisphere Map during Periodization 1
Bolded items are in the World History Atlas – pages 1-5
A. Continents: Circle
1. Africa
2. Eurasia
3. Australia
B.
Bodies of Water - label
4. Atlantic Ocean
5. Pacific Ocean
6. Indian Ocean
7. Mediterranean Sea
8. Red Sea
9. Persian Gulf
C. Physical Features (draw in mountains
and circle deserts)
10. Himalayan Mountains
11. Caucasus Mountains
12. Hindu Kush Mountains
13. Ural Mountains
D. Historical Regions – circle or shade in
14. Middle East/Southwest Asia
15. Indian Subcontinent
16. European Subcontinent
E. Draw and label relevant rivers for the River
Valley Civilizations
17. Nile River
18. Tigris/Euphrates Rivers
19.
20.
21.
22.
Huang He/Yellow River
Yangtze/Chang River
Indus River
Ganges River
F. Cities (place a dot and label)
23. Cairo
24. Thebes (in Africa)
25. Babylon/Baghdad
Mental Map #2: P2 - THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS
BOLDED ITEMS CAN BE FOUND IN THE WORLD HISTORY ATLAS – PAGES 4-15
A. BODIES OF WATER - LABEL
1. Bay of Bengal
2. Caspian Sea
3. Black Sea
4. Caribbean Sea
5. Gulf of Mexico
B. PHYSICAL FEATURES – DRAW IN OR CIRCLE
6. Anatolian Peninsula
7. Eurasian Steppe (origins of Indo-Europeans- see map on page 5)
8. Yucatan Peninsula
C. CITIES – PLACE A DOT AND LABEL
D. HISTORIC STATES – SHADE AND LABEL
9. Alexandria
17. Mesopotamia
10. Babylon/Baghdad
18. Han China
11. Jerusalem
19. Mayan city-states
12. Rome
20. Teotihuacans (later center of Aztecs)
13. Athens
14. Sparta
F. Place the following on a separate
15. Chang’an
eastern hemisphere map
16. Bactra
21. Roman Empire – 117 CE
22. Early Greece, c. 2000-1100 BCE
23. cultural hearth for Hinduism/Buddhism
24. cultural hearth for Judaism/Christianity
Mental Map Quiz #3 – P3 (600-1450)
Items bolded can be found in the World History Atlas 13-18
A.
Rivers – draw in and label
1. Strait of Melaka
2. Indus River
3. Nile River
4. Danube River
5. Rhine River
6. Yellow/Huang He River
7. Yangtze/Chang River
8. Ganges River
B. Bodies of Water - Label
9. Red Sea
10. Indian Ocean
11. Mediterranean Sea
12. Baltic Sea
13. East China Sea
14. South China Sea
15. Sea of Japan
C. Physical Geography – Draw in or circle and label
16. Caucasus Mountains
D. Historical States – shade in and label
E. Cities – place dot and label
17. Abbasid Caliphate, c. 750
23. Constantinople
18. Gupta Empire, 400 CE
24. Mecca
19. Islamic World, 750 CE
25. Medina
20. Byzantine Empire, c. 400 CE
21. Kingdom of the Franks, 565 CE
22. Mongol Empires, 13th century (1 big circle around all 4 Khanates)
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WORLD HISTORY MENTAL MAP #4 – P3 (600-1450)
World History Atlas pages 19-22
A.
Physical Geography – Label or draw in and label
1. Andes Mountains
2. Lake Victoria
3. Baltic Sea
4. Aral Sea
5. Gobi Desert
B.
Historical States or Regions – Shade in or pattern and then label
6. France, c. 950-1300
7. Holy Roman Empire (not the Roman Empire!!!!), c. 950-1300
8. Ghana/Mali/Songhai Empire, 13th, 14th, 15th c.
9. Inca Empire, 500-1532 CE
10. Mameluks Empire, c. 1500
11. Safavid Empire, c. 1500
12. Ming dynasty, c. 1500
C.
Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage – start and destination points connected
D.
Cities – place a dot and label
13. Timbuktu
14. Baghdad
15. Guangzhou
16. Samarkand
17. Mecca
18. Cuzco
19. Goa (South Asia)
E. Swahili City-States/Ports:
20. Great Zimbabwe
21. Mogadishu
22. Kilwa
23. Mombasa
24. Mozambique (city of)
25. Zanzibar
WORLD HISTORY MENTAL MAP #5 – P4 (1450-1750)
World History Atlas 24, 25 and 27
Exploration
1. Cabot, 1497
2. Norsemen, c. 1000
3. Columbus, 1492
4. Magellan’s Expedition, 1520-1521
5. da Gama, 1497
Historical States and regions – Shade and label
6. France, 1648
7. Ottoman Empire, c. 1672
8. Slave exportation areas of Africa, c. 1450-1808
9. New Spain, c. 1700 in Americas
10. New France, c. 1700 in Americas
11. British Colonies, c. 1700 in Americas
Historic Items
12. Treaty of Tordesillas/Line of Demarcation
Cities – get the dot close to actual site
13. Versailles
20. Buenos Aires
14. Vienna
21. Kiev
15. Venice
22. Moscow
16. Madrid
23. Jamestown
17. Mecca
24. Boston
18. Medina
25. Quebec
19. Jerusalem
WORLD HISTORY MENTAL MAP #6 – P4 (1450-1750)
World History Atlas – 26, 28 and 29
A. Regions
1. Slave export areas
B. Cities
2. New York City
3. New Orleans
4. Caracas
5. Buenos Aires
6. Algiers
7. Montevideo
8. Tunis
9. Cairo
C. States/Colonies
10. British controlled India, 1800
11. Dutch East Indies, 1800
12. Spanish Southeast Asia, 1800
13. Ottoman Empire, before 1774
D. Landforms
14. Yellow Sea
15. Niger River
16. East China Sea
17. Congo River
18. Nile River
19. Sea of Japan
20. Himalayas
D. Places - important to trade – label and/or draw in
21. Grand Canal
22. Arabian Sea
23. Bay of Bengal
24. Strait of Melaka/Malacca
25. South China Sea
WORLD HISTORY MENTAL MAP #7 – P5 (1750-1900)
Items count 7 points each
World History Atlas – 30 and 32
Europe Map
Cities: Population over 1,000,000
1. London
2. Hamburg
3. Paris
Cities: Population 500,000-1,000,000
4. Berlin
5. Vienna
Cities as Industrial centers
6. Manchester
7. Liverpool
8. Brussels
9. Amsterdam
10. Dusseldorf
11. Naples
12. Lisbon
States/Empires:
13. Prussia, 1815
14. Austrian Empire, 1815
15. Napoleon’s Empire, 1812 (conquest, allies, and controlled circled as one area)
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WORLD HISTORY MENTAL MAP #8
World History Atlas pages 31, 33, and 34
A.
Countries/territories/empires – shade and label
1.
Peru
2.
Brazil
3.
Cuba
4.
Mexico
5.
United States
6.
Argentina
7.
Haiti
8.
Venezuela
9.
Colombia
10.
Ecuador
11.
Puerto Rico
12.
Jamaica
13.
Chile
Cities in the western hemisphere:
14.
Havana
15.
Mexico City
16.
Caracas
17.
Montevideo
18.
Buenos Aires
19.
Rio de Janeiro
20.
Lima
Colonial Empires – Shade in the areas and create a key
21.
US and its territories, 1900
22.
Great Britain
i. and its territories in Africa
ii. and its territories in South and Southeast Asia
23.
France and its territories
24.
Japan and its territories
25.
Germany and its territories
World History Mental Map Quiz #9 – P6 (1900-present)
World History Atlas – pages 35-38
Neutral Countries in WWI/Great War – label
1. Netherlands
2. Norway
3. Spain
4. Sweden
5. Switzerland
B. Major Battles I WWI/Great War– place a dot and label
6. Gallipoli
7. Marne
8. Verdun
C. Physical Features – label
9. Baltic Sea
10. Dardanelles Strait
11. North Sea
12. Dneiper River
13. Volga River
14. Rhine River
15. Black Sea
D. Alliances – shade and make a key
Central Powers/Triple Alliance (color the 3 items the same color and label the countries listed)
16. Germany
17. Austria-Hungary
18. Ottoman Empire
Allied Powers/Triple Entente (color the 4 items the same color and label the countries listed)
19. Great Britain
20. France
21. Russia
22. United States
E. WWI Items – draw and label
23. maximum German/Central Power advance in the France (connect major battle sites)
24. farthest advance of Central Powers
25. sinking site for Lusitania
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A.
Mental Map Quiz #10 - Periodization 6 – Map of the Contemporary World and World War II
Map pages 39-41
A. Axis Countries – shade all 3 countries the same color and label the countries
1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Japan
B. Allied Countries – shade all 3 countries the same color and label the countries
4. Great Britain
5. U.S.
6. U.S.S.R.
C. Cities – place a dot and label
7. Berlin
8. Dresden
9. London
10. Leningrad
11. Hiroshima
12. Nagasaki
13. Yalta
14. Dunkirk
D. Battles – place a plus sign and label
15. Battle of Britain
16. Battle of the Bulge
17. Battle of Al Alamein
18. Battle of Iwo Jima
19. Battle of Midway
20. Battle of Okinawa
21. Battle of Stalingrad
E. Miscellaneous for WWII – draw or shade and label
22. Areas occupied by Axis Powers, 1940-45
23. Areas under Japanese control, 1941-45
24. Normandy/D-Day landings
25. Sudetenland
WORLD HISTORY MENTAL MAP #11 – P6 Contemporary World
Map pages – 42-44
5 points each
A.
Countries – shade and label
1.
Cuba
7. Rwanda
2.
Ethiopia
8. South Africa
3.
India
9. Syria
4.
Israel
10. United States
5.
Kenya
11. Russia
6.
Nicaragua
12. Vietnam
B. Vietnam War
13. Gulf of Tonkin Incident
14. Hanoi
15. Saigon
16. Tet Offensive
17. My Lai Massacre
C. Cold War Europe
18. NATO Alliance
19. Warsaw Pact
20. Non-aligned Europe