Geography of the Holy Land Worksheet
Using your textbook or any book with a map of Palestine in it, draw, trace or copy the
map into the space provided below and fill in the various items mentioned below. Use
crayons or markers to make your map interesting and colourful.
The Holy Land
1. The Political regions of JUDAEA, SAMARIA AND GALILEE
2. The geographical features:- THE DEAD SEA, JORDAN RIVER, SEA OF
GALILEE, MEDITERRANEAN SEA
3. The cities of BETHSAIDA, TIBERIAS, CANA, NAZARETH, JERUSALEM,
BETHLEHEM, JERICHO, EMMAUS, CAESAREA.
4. Shade in the area that Herod was in charge of when Jesus was born.
Look at your map of the Holy Land.
It is quite a small country, isn’t it? When you actually measure the distances involved, it
is approximately 150 miles from North to South and between 30 and 50 miles from East
to West.
Think about the area where you live. How far would you get if you travelled those sorts
of distances? Take a look at a map and work that out. Fill in the answers on the lines
provided below. Put the name of your town/village on the home line and then fill in one
place for each direction. This will give you an idea of how far people in the Holy Land
could travel.
My Home
150 miles north and south
50 miles east and west
Travelling from place to place was difficult. There were not the means of transport
available then that we can use today. From what you have learnt of the Holy Land and
the type of lives the people lived, fill in three forms of transport that they might have used
to get from place to place.
Forms of Transport
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