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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
