Mapping History
http://www.bl.uk/learning/artimages/maphist/mappinghistory.html
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- Learn more about geography, maps, research skills, visual learners, and world history.
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The maps featured on this site are divided into four content areas that include: Mapping Ideas, Deception, lies and made up lands, Worlds at War and Wealth and Poverty. There is an activities link that uses the maps on this site to teach students about mapping skills and explore the maps through questioning and imaginative skill tasks. The accompanying text provides a brief description of the map’s importance in world history. The color maps can be enlarged to show cartographic detail. The particular maps selected for this site are very interesting and unusual. Teachers and students will find this an engaging and fun site.
These maps tell strange and fascinating tales. Discover imagined lands, Queen’s tantrums, utopias and children’s puzzles, Adam and Eve, a moon maiden, a symbolic knight, and wealthy show-offs, secrets of military campaigns,urban rioters and scheming prisoners are a sample of the events, people, and places featured on this site. Students using this site will learn that maps can be factual, realistic, fictitious or microcosms of the world.
