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The World Changes
Using the sites below and your think sheet record how maps have helped to change our world view.  Look at changes in water, land, and other markings.  Can you identify any landmarks?

Site 1:   Homer's View of the Earth 900BC

Site 2: Ptolemy's World Map 1482

Site 3: Martin Behaim's Globe 1492  The first globe

Site 4: Columbus View of the World?

 

MAKE A MAP
Now
Can you create a map of a place you have never visited?   This is what many map makers had to do when explorers arrived back home. 

Go to Mapmaker, Mapmaker Make Me a Map!
Give it a try.  Read the following descriptions in the link provided and try to draw the map.

Unit Essentials

Geography

1. How did the change view of the world influence exploration?( How does human culture influence land and climate?)

2. How are cultures shaped by land and climate
 

 

 

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