I finally bought a very large world map. I looked and looked all over the internet and could never decide on the "perfect" map. Hmmm.... is there such a thing as perfect? I was in Office Max, saw the large rolled up world and United States maps bundled together for $6.95 and decided... perfect-o! Up until now we've used Google Earth and small maps provided with our texts.
We rolled out the huge World Map and located our geographical points of study. On current versions of world maps this area is Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Israel. We found Turkey....check. Where was Israel?.... Israel?....Israel?---Whoa! Look at how small it is compared to the rest of the world! Oh my.... look at where it is compared to the rest of the world's land masses. Hmmm... pretty interesting! None of this was in our books we are using to study geography and history. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. You can click on each picture to enlarge them. To quote one of the books we're studying. "...the Israelites left a legacy unlike any other in the world. Instead of riches, knowledge, or fine art, their legacy was a religious one. Thousands of years later, people across the world would know about the Israelites' God."--Ancient Israelites and Their Neighbors.
