Waterways of the Middle East
This ominous body of water is located between Turkey and Eastern Europe. Trade ships can use this to reach the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Black Sea?
Its location along the Silk Road and having a natural harbor made this Eastern Roman city a hub for trade throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
What is Constantinople?
This ocean is the largest and deepest ocean and borders the western Americas.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This mountain range extends almost 2,000 miles in North America, running from Newfoundland in Canada through Tennessee to central Alabama.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Located in North Africa and portions of West Africa, this is the largest desert in the world. Caravan trade across this geographic feature would boost the economic strength of the regions.
What is The Sahara Desert?
A large source of oil is at the bottom of this body of water located between present-day Iran and the Arabian Peninsula.
What is the Persian Gulf?
The prime location of these two African cities brought people together for trade and allowed them to share things from their cultures.
What are Djenne and Timbuktu?
This ocean divides Africa and Western Europe from the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This mountain range stretches some 3,000 miles from British Columbia and Northern Alberta in Canada south through the United States.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
This body of water in the Atlantic Ocean region forms the western edge of West Africa where numerous minerals such as gold, copper, and zinc can be found.
What is the Gulf of Guinea?
This body of water located between the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa is an important trade route for Africa, Asia, and Europe.
What is the Red Sea?
This body of water allowed William the Conqueror to travel to England from Northern France (Normandy) where he would defeat Harold Godwinson in the Battle of Hastings.
What is the English Channel
This river is the largest and longest in China and the third-longest river in the world.
What is the Yangtze River?
The Mississippi River empties into this body of water.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
This area is a transitional zone between the Sahara Desert and the grasslands of the savanna.
What is the Sahel?
This ghostly body of water is the world's largest that is not connected to another body of water.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This foreign influence introduced its writing system to Japan through the Korean Peninsula.
What is China?
This river provides water for five West African nations.
What is the Niger River?
This geographic feature lies in central North America and has few trees and limited access to water resources.
What is the Great Plains?
This large, freshwater lake is Africa's largest and played an important role in the trans-saharan trade.
What is Lake Chad?
Egypt and Rome relied on this body of water that is bordered by Europe to the north, Asia to the east, Africa to the south, and empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The North Atlantic Drift provided the temperate climate and adequate rainfall for this geographic feature in Northern Europe.
What is the North European Plain?
Many of the world's most important international shipping channels run through this body of water that lies between Vietnam to the west and the Philippines to the east.
What is the South China Sea?
Located in central Mexico, this semi-arid geographical feature rises an average of 5,988 feet above sea level.
What is the Central Mexican Plateau?
These two geological features are the predominant landforms in Africa.
What is deserts and savannas?