Be sure you can locate the following areas, countries, bodies of water, and cities on a map. The maps on pp. 81, 88, 95, 99, 105 and 109 in the Barnavi Atlas will be helpful in identifying those sites you don’t already know.

Iberian Peninsula.
Spain
Castile, Aragon, Navarre,
Barcelona, Toledo, Cordoba, Granada
Portugal
Lisbon
Italian Peninsula
Rome, Florence, Venice
France, Provence
Paris, Montpellier, Troyes
Fez, Kairouan (Qayrawan)
Egypt, Cairo/Fostat
Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)
Syria
Damascus
Babylonia (modern-day Iraq)
Baghdad
Persia (modern-day Iran)
Germany (German-speaking lands); Holy Roman Empire
Speyer
Palestine (modern-day Israel)
Tiberias, Caesarea, Jaffa, Sepphoris, Jerusalem
Greece
Dead Sea, Lake Kineret, Jordan River
Tigris River, Euphrates River
Rhine River
Mediterranean Sea, Bosphorus, Black Sea
Poland