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This Greek Philosopher wrote about a lost continent: Atlantis.
Who is Plato?
This Empire had a highly organized government, advanced engineering techniques, expanded trade routes, and a mighty army, but they did not value philosophy and science.
What is the Roman Empire? Or What is Rome?
The imaginary lines that circle the globe, either east-west or north-south.
What are latitude and longitude?
Not only did this help expand the trade of goods and services, but also the trade of scientific ideas.
What is the Silk Road?
After cataloging 850 stars, Hipparchus developed a 6-point scale for this, based on apparent brightness.
What is Magnitude?
This geographer believed the Earth was round and that one could possibly sail the other way around the world to reach India. He also believed there could be "other inhabited worlds (lands)" in the temperate zone that were unknown to the Romans.
Who is Strabo?
This was the center of learning and culture in the Hellenistic world, but it was later destroyed by invaders.
What is Alexandria?
This line of longitude, running north-south, passes through the Royal Astronomical Observatory in Greenwich, England, and has a measurement of zero degrees.
What is the Prime Meridian?
Libraries and scholars here helped keep science advancing while the Roman Empire collapsed and the libraries of Alexandria were destroyed.
What is Arabia? OR What is Cordoba, Spain?
This ancient astronomical instrument measures that altitude of cosmic bodies above the horizon, often used by sailors at sea.
What is an astrolabe?
This "Father of Modern Geography" contributed to and organized geography and mathematics; although he did believe in a geocentric universe.
Who is Claudius Ptolemy? Or Who is Ptolemy?
A north African city, this place was home to Augustine, a bishop who valued Greek learning/science and was able to integrate Christian values with it.
What is Hippo?
What is the zenith?
The period of time after the fall of the Roman Empire, lasting until the 15th century. The first half is often described as the Dark Ages.
What is an epicycle?
The greatest Greek astronomer, he charted a thousand stars on a star map and discovered that the stars slowly shift over a long period of time.
Who is Hipparchus?
The region between the tropics and the polar circles, characterized by moderate temperatures.
What is the temperate zone?
What is altitude?
Adelard of Bath, an English philosopher, translated this man's book, The Elements.
Who was Euclid?
A crude way for sea captains to measure east-west distance. Simply dropping a log from the front of the ship and measuring the time it takes to reach the back of the ship, then using this to estimate the distance they had traveled.
What is Dead Reckoning?
This Christian monk proposed that Earth was rectangular!
Who is Cosmas?
With the capital city of Constantinople, this Empire was made up of the former eastern half of the Roman Empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
What is Antipodes?
Without scholarly standards, Caius Julius Solinus was known as this, the "Teller of Tales", for his book on distant lands inhabited by dog-headed people and milk-drinking snakes.
What is Polyhistor?
The angular measurement from north toward the east along the horizon.
What is the azimuth?