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Medieval European Geography Quiz

European history requires some knowledge of European geography and so there will be map-based questions in your exams. For this assignment atlases are available in Library Reference Room of the Library. Other geographical information can be gathered from the Encyclopaedia Britannica or Encyclopedia Americana which open each article on a country with an account of its geography.

• 1. Medieval Cities
• 2. Physical Geography
• 3. Regional Names
  

Mark these cities on Map I below with a dot (write the city's name next to the dot). These were all important cities in the classical period or the middle ages. Next to the name of each city indicate in which modern country it is situated.

City	Modern Country	City	Modern Country	City	Modern Country
1. Paris		2. Rome		3. London
4. Marseilles		5. Constantinople		6. Lyon
7. Toledo		8. Venice		9. York
10. Jerusalem		11. Avignon		12. Barcelona
13. Florence		14. Assisi		15. Alexandria
16. Cordoba		17. Athens		18. Ephesus
19. Bologna		20. Mainz

Mark on Map 2 below the locations of the following mountain ranges, rivers and islands. For Mountains use this symbol, for rivers use a line, and with the islands write the name of the island next to it.

Mountain Ranges:

1. The Pyrennees	2. The Appennines	3. The Alps
4. Massif Centrale	5. The Carpathians

Rivers:

6. The Rhine	7. The Danube	8. The Po
9. The Elbe	10.  The Seine	11. The Thames
12. The Nile	13.  The Tagus

Islands:

14. Sicily	15. Ireland	16. Sardinia
17. Great Britain	18. Corsica	19. Cyprus
20. Crete	23. Majorca	24. Shetland

Most modern states did not exist in the middle ages, for instance there was no `France' or `Germany' in the modern sense. `Italy' was not a united country unitil 1871. These terms were used, however, although somewhat vaguely. On this final map then indicate the approximate areas meant by the following names.

1. France	2. Germany	3. Italy
4. Spain	5. England	6. Denmark
7. Flanders	8. The Holy Land	9. Egypt

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© Paul Halsall January 1998
halsall@murray.fordham.edu