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Sacred Geograph y

Tyler, Luke and Zach They are on a line. They are near London. They are standing in two hemispheres at the same time

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Mr. Bennetts SS Class SacredGeography1Tyler, Luke and Zach

They are on a line.They are near London.They are standing in two hemispheres at the same time.

Where is Bobby?2

The Prime MeridianGreenwich, England

grinitch not green-witch3

4This lesson is NOT about things that you MAY already know about maps. Things like:Read the title first to find out the purpose.PhysicalPoliticalClimate Population DensityTopographicalResource and Land UseRead the Key or LegendLook for the compass roseFind the scale

5In this lesson we ask How can we use the map to learn about the mapmaker?6Where was this mapmaker from?

This map is from 1886. The Greenwich Meridian was accepted by most other nations as the International Meridian at a conference in Washington D.C. in 1884.

Remember the year 1884!8

Mercator Projectionhttp://www.freeusandworldmaps.com/html/World_Projections/WorldPrint.html

Whoops!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

Robinson Projectionhttp://www.geography.wisc.edu/maplib/robinson_projection.htmlRobinson Projection

http://personal.frostburg.edu/lebalick0/worldprojections.jpghttp://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/105_Homers_World_View.html

What does this map tell you about the mapmaker?14http://cartographic-images.net/Cartographic_Images/210_The_Cottoniana_or_Anglo-Saxon_Map.html

What does this map tell you about the mapmaker?15http://www.thefirstorlast.com/FUSS-ABOUT-ISRAEL.htmlHow about this one?

16http://www.thefirstorlast.com/FUSS-ABOUT-ISRAEL.html"Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

Ezekiel 5:5

17As the navel is set in the centre of the human body,So is the land of Israel the navel of the worldSituated in the centre of the world,And Jerusalem in the centre of the land of Israel,And the sanctuary in the centre of Jerusalem,And the holy place in the centre of the sanctuary,And the ark in the centre of the holy place,And the foundation stone before the holy place,Because from it the world was founded. Midrash Tanchuma,Qedoshim.

18This map is from 1154 CE.

http://www.islamic-study.org/geography.htm19This is a simplified version of a circa 950 CE map that has been translated into English.

http://www.islamic-study.org/geography.htm20http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebstorf_Map

Look closely at the center and the edges.

21http://asia-for-teachers.educ.utas.edu.au/CD/cdx/units/unit1/module1/lernact1/perspec1.htm

The is known as a Wheel Map. Can you guess the country?

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Zero Point of HighwaysZhengyangmen Gate in Beijing24ZhongguoMiddle KingdomChina

25http://cluster.cis.drexel.edu/~cchen/projects/sdss/

26So, no map is a perfect representation of realityOnly reality is a perfect representation of itself.All maps are a reflection of the mapmaker maker.What will your map reveal about you?27