The+Ancient+Rome+Map+Activity+by+Brenda,+Jacky,+&+Maria

1. What lands existed on the outer edges of the known world in these maps? Provide at least four examples. 1. __Britannia__ 2. __Tapoonaya__ 3. __Tinie__ 4. __Karinayia__

2. According to these maps, did the Romans know about these places?

a. the Nile River __Yes__

b. the British Isles __Yes__

c. India __Yes__

d. Japan __No__

e. North America __No__

**Compare the Orbis Terrarum (the first map) with one of the other maps.**
3. Write the name of the second map you've chosen here. __Pomponius Mela__ 4. Where are Rome and the Italian peninsula located (center, left, right, top, etc.): on the Orbis Terrarum? on the other map? __On the Orbis Terrarum,It's in Europa at the southern part of the map And for the one we picked it's at the left top corner of the map.__ 5. Why do you think the Italian Peninsula is located in this position on each map? __Because they might have not known exactly where the Italian Peninsula actually was, so they put it next to their country.__ 6. Which map is more detailed, with more place names? __Pomponius Mela__ 7. Which map is more accurate in terms of the shape of landforms and bodies of water? (compare the maps to a modern map) __Pomponius Mela__ 8. Which parts of the maps are the most accurate: the parts closest to Rome or the parts farther from Rome? Why? __The parts farther away from Rome because I looked at another map and saw the other ones and everything farther away from Rome seemed to be in the right places and the place where Rome seemed to be looked inaccurate.__ 9. Our world map today looks very similar to the world map 100 years ago, but the Roman maps you've seen look rather different from each other even though only 104 years passed between the making of the earliest and the latest maps. Why do you think this difference exists? Why would the Romans have created world maps that looked this different from each other within such a relatively short time span? __Maybe it's because they didn't include the rest of the world's details and only put their land and the ones they visted and saw when they were traveling. And since they did that they had diffrent names of their countries and they only put those down and didn't put the rest because they might not have known we and the rest exsisted. So, thats why it looks so diffrent then whats in the map today.__