HISTORY 471
HlSTORY OF BRAZIL
Spring 2006
Map Quiz Study Sheet
http://www.inform.umd.eduSpring06/HIST471/mapstudy.html

Please study the following list of Brazil's major geographic/topographic/regional features. You will be quizzed on these items at the end of lecture on

The pass/fail quiz, to be given at the end of class on Tuesday, February 7, 2006, will ask that you correctly locate ten items drawn from the list below. A blank map similar to the one on the reverse will be provided. Seven or more correct answers will be considered a passing grade. All passing grades will be given full credit for the map quiz (5% of total course grade). If you do not pass on the first attempt, you may retake the quiz twice.

Study Tip: For starters, look at the maps reproduced in the Viotti da Costa and Skidmore readings. You might then look through one of the numerous atlases available in the Reference Division of McKeldin Library. For a reliable (if graphically outdated) teaching atlas of Latin America, see Cathryn and John Lombardi, Latin American History: A Teaching Atlas [MCKREF G1541.S1L6 1983].

The number of digitized maps, some with search capabilities, grows by the day. For starters try:

Google Earth <http://earth.google.com/>
Perry Casteñeda Library at the University of Texas <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/>
University Libraries Government and Maps Division <http://www.lib.umd.edu/GOV/>
World Factbook <http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook>


NATURAL ENVIRONMENT:
Amazon River
Bahia de Todos os Santos [Bay of All Saints]
Guanabara Bay
Ilha de Marajó
Lagoa dos Patos
Pantanal
Paraíba River Valley
Planalto Central
Rio Doce
Saltos do Iguaçú [Iguassu Falls]
São Francisco River
The Sertão
Tietê River
Xingú River

STATES
Acre
Bahia
Ceará
Maranhão
Mato Grosso
Minas Gerais
Pernambuco
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Norte
Rondônia
São Paulo
Tocantins

REGIONS:
North
Northeast
Center-West
Southeast
South

PRINCIPAL CITIES:
Belém
Belo Horizonte
Brasília
Curitiba
Fortaleza
Manaus
Natal
Ouro Preto
Porto Alegre
Porto Seguro
Recife
Rio de Janeiro
Salvador
Santos
São Paulo
Volta Redonda

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