Study Materials – by Paul Brians
Place Names for Map Quizzes
Note: This study guide is presented here as a historical document only. Paul Brians is retired and his courses are no longer offered by WSU.
Place Names to be Memorized for Map Quizzes Quiz on map 1.3, The Ancient Near East, on p. 10 of Duiker:
- Arabian Desert
- Asia Minor
- Assyria
- Babylon
- Euphrates River
- Jerusalem
- Nile River
- Mediterranean Sea
- Persian Gulf
- Red Sea
- Sahara Desert
- Tigris River
- Ur
Quiz on map 4.1, Classical Greece, on p. 92 of Duiker:
- Aegean Sea
- Athens
- Crete
- Delphi
- Hellespont
- Ionian Sea
- Knossus
- Lesbos
- Macedonia
- Olympia
- Sparta
- Troy
Quiz on map 5.3, Rome, on p. 132 of Duiker:
- Alexandria
- Britain
- Byzantium
- Gaul
- Germania
- Judaea
- North Sea
- Numidia
- Rome
- Spain
- Syria
- Thrace
Quiz on map of India: Online map for this quiz (not in Duiker).
- Bay of Bengal
- Benares (Varanasi)
- Bengal
- Bombay
- Calcutta
- Ceylon
- Delhi
- Ganges River
- Himalayan Mountains
- Indian Ocean
- Indus River
- Kashmir
- Madras
Quiz on map 7.3, the Islamic World, on p. 190 of Duiker:
- Arabia
- Baghdad
- Black Sea
- Byzantine Empire
- Cairo
- Caspian Sea
- Constantinople
- Cordoba
- Fez
- Iran
- Iraq
- Mecca
- Medina