Mountains
The sacred mountain to the Greeks where the gods lived.
What is Mt Olympus?
The oldest artificial mountains. These were man made stepped pyramids of ancient Mesopotamia.
What are ziggurats?
This pagan poet, guided Dante through Hell and appears in the Aeneid.
Who is Virgil?
He measured the Earth and calculated its circumference.
Who is Eratosthenes?
What shape did ancient Egyptians see the Earth as?
What is an egg?
North of the Himalayas, A mountain higher than the mountains, that was a dwelling place for the Hindus and Buddhists gods.
What is Mt. Meru?
This famous ziggurat became a symbol of man's efforts to reach the heavens.
What is the Tower of Babel?
Dante structured the afterlife into nine circles or realms in this piece of literature.
What is the Divine Comedy?
He invented the system of longitude and latitude?
Who is Hipparchus?
Before the Greeks thought the Earth was a sphere, the Homeric notion was the Earth was this shape.
What is a circular disk? (surronded by the river Oceanus)
This Japanese peak was imortalized in Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views.
What is Mt. Fuji?
In the Nile Valley in Egypt, we can still see some of these artificial mountains.
What are pyramids?
This was believed to collect souls and then transfer them to the sun.
What is the moon?
He wrote Geography and is known as the father of modern geography.
Who is Ptolemy?
Ancient Peruvians imagined the Earth to be this shape.
What is a square?
The mountain where the God of the Jews gave Moses the tablets of the law.
What is Mt Sinai?
These are artificial mountain replicas of Mt Meru.
What are stupas?
Some believed each person had its own star and that this was the highway for departed souls.
What is the Milky Way?
This famous explorer used Ptolemy's maps and figures which underestimated the Earth's circumference.
Who is Columbus?
Becuase of their desire for symmetry the Greeks imagined the Earth to be this shape?
What is a sphere?
While Mt Everest is the highest mountain peak in the world today. This is the tallest.
What is Mauna Kea? (On the island of highest)
(Everest 29,032 feet)
(Mauna Kea 33,500 feet)
On the other side of the world, in the Valley of Mexico, the Mayas set up this pyramid temple. Today it is one of the seven wonders of the world.
What is Chichen Itza?
The Greeks mapped the underworld, which is surrounded by this river. There is no bridge over this river, so the dead have to be ferried over by Charon.
What is the River Styx?
He wrote the book The Discoveres.
Who is Daniel J. Boorstin?
This cosmic form appeared in Norse, Hindu, and Egyptians myths as a support for the heavens.
What is a tree? (cosmic tree, the World Tree)