APHG SIGNIFICANT PLACES OF THE WORLD
Use the outline maps to locate each place name. These are some of the places that you absolutely must know to be a geographically literate person. You should incorporate your knowledge of these places into your FRQs and class discussions when appropriate. We may add to the list as the year progresses and things happen around the world. You will have a test over this information on : ______.
ANGLO AMERICA
1. US
2. CANADA
CITIES
3. NYC
4. WASHINGTON DC
5. LOS ANGELES
6. HOUSTON
7. OTTAWA
8. VANCOUVER
LATIN AMERICA
9. CUBA
10. MEXICO
11. HAITI
12. BRAZIL
13. ARGENTINA
14. COLOMBIA
15. VENEZUELA
CITIES
16. MEXICO CITY
17. RIO DE JANIERO
18. SAO PAULO
19. BUENOS AIRES
EUROPE
20. UNITED KINGDOM
21. GERMANY
22. FRANCE
23. ITALY
24. GREECE
25. SERBIA
26. KOSOVO
27. SWITZERLAND
28. UKRAINE
CITIES
29. LONDON
30. BERLIN
31. PARIS
32. ROME
RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA
33. RUSSIA
34. KAZAKHSTAN
35. UZBEKISTAN
CITIES
36. MOSCOW
37. ST. PETERSBURG
SOUTHWEST ASIA
38. TURKEY
39. ISRAEL
40. IRAQ
41. KUWAIT
42. SAUDI ARABIA
43. IRAN
44. AFGHANISTAN
CITIES
45. MECCA
46. RIYADH
47. JERUSALEM
48. BAGHDAD
49. TEHRAN
50. KABUL
SOUTH ASIA
51. PAKISTAN
52. INDIA
53. BANGLADESH
CITIES
54. ISLAMABAD
55. NEW DELHI
56. MUMBAI/BOMBAY
57. BANGALORE
SOUTHEAST ASIA
58. THAILAND
59. BURMA/MYANMAR
60. VIETNAM
61. INDONESIA
62. SINGAPORE
CITIES
63. HO CHI MINH CITY
64. HANOI
65. JAKARTA
EAST ASIA
66. CHINA
67. JAPAN
68. TAIWAN
69. NORTH KOREA
70. SOUTH KOREA
CITIES
71. BEIJING
72. SHANGHAI
73. LHASA
74. HONG KONG
75. TOKYO
76. PYONGYANG
77. SEOUL
AFRICA
78. EGYPT
79. ALGERIA
80. TUNISIA
81. COTE D’ IVOIRE
82. NIGERIA
83. SUDAN
84. RWANDA
85. ETHIOPIA
86. SOMALIA
87. KENYA
88. DEM. REPUB. OF CONGO (DROC)
89. CONGO
90. SOUTH AFRICA
91. LIBERIA
CITIES
92. CAIRO
93. LAGOS
94. NAIROBI
95. CAPETOWN
96. JOHANNESBURG
97. PRETORIA
OCEANIA
98. AUSTRALIA
99. NEW ZEALAND
CITIES
100. SYDNEY
REGIONS These are places around the world that are ‘hot spots’ or regional areas used by geographers.
101. SOUTH
102. MIDWEST
103. MID-ATLANTIC
104. PACIFIC NORTHWEST
105. WEST
106. SOUTHWEST
107. NORTHEAST
108. NORTHERN IRELAND
109. WEST BANK
110. GAZA
111. KASHMIR
112. TIBET
113. QUEBEC
114. LATIN AMERICA
115. WESTERN EUROPE
116. CENTRAL ASIA
117. FAR EAST
118. MIDDLE EAST
119. OCEANIA
120. POLYNESIA
Dates for
American Cultural Literacy
711 / Moors reached Spain via Morocco/North Africa1066 / Battle of Hastings - Normans invaded Britain from Normandy (France)
1492 / Columbus sailed the ocean blue - Moors were defeated by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella (Spain)
1588 / British defeated the Spanish Armada (tipping point)
1607 / Settlement at Jamestown, VA (Pocahontas)
1620 / Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (MA)
1760’s / Industrial revolution begins in England
1776 / America declares independence from British
1789 / French Revolution
1803 / LA Purchase - Thomas Jefferson from Napoleon’s France - doubled the size of US, world reached 1B people
1830’s / Cyrus McCormack invented reaper (for crop harvesting); trains made transportation simpler; Samuel Morse invented telegraph and communication became simpler
1860’s / Civil War; Lincoln was 16th president of the US; industrial revolution in US
1869 / Transcontinental finished (golden spike driven in Promontory, Utah); Suez Canal formally opened to traffic connecting the Gulf of Suez and the Indian Ocean, 100 miles long
1896 / Plessy v. Ferguson - US Supreme Court ruling stating that “separate but equal” facilities were permitted for segregation of races
1898 / Spanish-American War fought in 3 months; US won and acquired the Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam
1914-1918 / The Great War (WWI)
1917 / Bolshevik Revolution - led by Lenin to overthrow Romanov Dynasty; beginning of communist state that lasted until 1991
1920 / Women in the US received full suffrage
1929 / October 29 - Black Tuesday - stock market crash started worldwide depression
1939-45 / WWII
1948 / Creation of Israel by UN
1949 / Communist Revolution in China led by Mao Zedong
1950-53 / Korean War
1954 / Brown v. Board of Education - Supreme Court ruling that began integration in US and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
1960’s / Civil Rights movement in US; Vietnam War
1989 / Fall of the Berlin Wall (November)
1991 / USSR fell; Operation Desert Storm - US v. Iraq (Saddam Hussein) - 1st Persian Gulf War
2001 / US declares War on Terror
2003 / Overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq
2008 / ½ the world’s population lives in cities