Lecture 2 - Lands, Seas, and Sources

If you haven't yet bothered with a map of your own, get one now! This is the time to mark the geographical features, label the rivers, straits, and seas, to delineate the empires if they're not on your specific map. I haven't been able to find a map that shows all the areas and features I need at once so I've printed several. When you come across something in the lectures that don't show on your map, type it into search and see where and what it is if the lecture isn't clear enough or if it's too fast.

Wikipedia has an easy to see map of plate tectonics --Plate Tectonics


Worldatlas.com has a couple of  Useful maps of the modern Middle East
For a topographical map of the Middle East, needed for this lecture and to understand the later lectures better, try this one: topographical map of the Middle East


I also found this to better see where the Balkans and the Straits of Dardanelles and Bosporus are:
Bosphorus (also Bosporus) is red, Dardanelles is yellow, the Balkan Peninsula is the land in the upper left corner. This is where Turkey is divided into its Asian and European parts, the city of Istanbul lies on both sides of the Bosphorus Strait.

Link and password for questions and practice at Quizlet for this lecture: Quizlet and the password is rivlandlec2