HWH geography
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- ganges river
- northeast indian river valley, gupta and muarya empires are here
- nile
- major egyptian river runs north south close to red sea
- constantinople
- byzantine capital home of hagia sophia, north east of greece on black sea
- papal states
- one of five major italian states to rise during the renaissance was centered by rome south of florence
- ur
- birthplace of abraham south of babylon on persian gulf
- Macedonia
- original home of Alexander of the great capital of macedonian empire
- moscow
- "3rd rome" eastern russia was converted to chirstianity by roman missionaries.
- Rome
- center of the papacy in central italy
- olympia
- peloponnesian island that fought alongside sparta in the "war of liberation" northwest of sparta
- nineveh
- Assyria's capital on the Tigris River
- sparta
- peloponnesian city south of olympia fought against athens in peloponnesian wars
- agincourt
- location of one of the battles of the hundred years war iw which the english lead by henry V defeated the massive french force. just south of the English channel
- venice
- north east italian port city one of the five major italian states to rise aftre the black plague
- medina
- north of mecca destination of hegira
- paris
- city where clovis was buried in northern france
- florence
- center of art during italian reniassance, home of such artist as giotto and masaccio, was ruled for a period of time by the medici family north of rome
- athens
- polis which pericles lead, center of hellenistic life, northwest of peloponnesus
- canton
- southern chinese port city
- samaria
- north of jerusalem on dead sea
- naples
- was removed from Renaissance culture, was a backward monarchy south of the papal states
- mohenjo daro
- second city in early harappan civilization south wets of harappa
- cairo
- north east egyptian city on mediterranean sea
- Cordova
- Spanish city established by umayyad caliphate in central spain, was primarily moslem until the reconquista
- indus river
- northwest indian river, harapan civilization is here
- nazareth
- birthplace of jesus north of jerusalem
- Fatihpur sikri
- Mughal city capital under Akbar between Indus and Ganges River valleys
- isfahan
- Capital of the Safavid empire; big trade and commerce center on silk roads. North of Persian Gulf
- jerusalem
- on mediterranean sea, location of dome of the rock
- chang'an
- chinese city that marks eastern end of silk roads, very metropolitan in mid west china
- peking
- north eastern china city, capital during yuan dynasty
- mongolia
- north east of china, home of temujin
- heian
- japanese city capital during fujiwara era in central japan
- London
- major english city in south eastern england
- nagasaki
- south west japanese city by European settlers
- harappa
- north west indian city south of Samarkand and west of Fatihpur Sikri, inavded from north by aryans, on indus river valley
- danube
- major river runs east west from adriactic sea to black sea in norhtern greece
- delhi
- Asoka's capital northern india between the major river valleys
- mecca
- home of muhammad south of medinaon west arabian coast, home of Ka'bah
- babylon
- capital of babylonian empire between tigris and euphrates just west of persian gulf
- carthage
- southwest of rome, rival of roman civilization took part in punic wars