Transcript India Geography Challenge

Rome
Geography
Challenge
Mr. Krueger
Objectives
• Students will be able to locate the city of Rome and
the boundaries of the Roman Empire.
• Students will identify key geographic features of the
Roman Empire.
• Students will be able to explain why the city of
Rome was ideally located to control a large empire.
Materials
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Rome map blank sheet
Rome questions sheet
Geography challenge question cards
Colored pencils
Ancient World text book
Introduction
• In the Rome Geography Challenge, students will
preview the key places and events that students will
encounter in this unit. In the activity students will
read and interpret a specialty map to learn about
the key geographic features, territories, and
boundaries of the Roman Empire at its height in 117
C.E. Working in pairs, students will answer questions
while labeling a map of the area. They discuss their
conclusions as a class.
Directions
• You will be working in groups to complete the
challenge
• Each group will start out with one challenge card
• You will read the question on the card and answer
in complete sentence then you will follow the
directions for labeling or coloring your map
• When you are finished with the card you have you
may return the card to the card station and pick up
a new one. Continue until you have completed all
questions.
Discussion
• What do you now know about ancient Rome that
you didn't know before?
• Why do you think the Romans referred to the
Mediterranean Sea as “Mare Nostrum”(our sea)?
• On what type of landform is Rome located?
• Why was this city ideally located to control a large
empire? What would it take to create such an
immense empire?
• Why might it have been difficult to maintain or
defend this empire?