Biblical Geography Made Easy

Bible World Map

What do you need? • blank 8-1/2 x 11 paper

What do you do?

• Fold the paper two times in each direction. Make your folds precise and your crease sharp!

• Unfold and smooth the paper. The crease lines are your guide-lines for drawing the map.

• Up is north.

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• pencil

• straight edge

SEAS5• Along the top, on the edges of the two boxes upper left, find halfway points as shown.

• Draw a half circle connecting this halfway points.

• You have drawn the bottom half of the first of five seas that framed the biblical world.• This sea is not mentioned in the Bible. • Today we know this sea as the BLACK Sea.

Black Sea

SEAS5• Along the top, on the edges of the two boxes upper right, find halfway points as shown.

• Draw another half circle connecting this halfway points.

• You have drawn the bottom half of the second of five seas that framed the biblical world.• This sea is also not mentioned in the Bible. • Today we know this sea as the CASPIAN Sea.

Black Sea Caspian Sea

SEAS5• Along the left side edge, find the middle two boxes.• Mark the halfway points right and left of each box.• Mark the center point of the next two boxes to the right. • Connect your marks in the shape of a mitten with a thumb pointing up.

• Mark the center of the NW corner box.

• You have drawn the third of five seas that framed the biblical world.

• This sea is the eastern end of the GREAT Sea. We call this sea the MEDITERRANEAN.

Great Sea (Mediterranean)

Black Sea Caspian Sea

SEAS5

• You have drawn the fourth of five seas that framed the biblical world.

• This sea is the northern end of the RED Sea.

• Mark the center of bottom of your map.

• Draw a line NW from your point. The line should approach the Great Sea, then loop back and return to the bottom of your map at a point to the right of where you started.

Black Sea Caspian Sea

Great Sea (Mediterranean)

Red Sea

SEAS5

• This is the northern end of the EASTERN Sea.

• Mark the lower right corner of your map.

• Draw a line NW from your point. Imitate the shape of the Red Sea. The line should loop back and return to the right edge of your map at a point above where you started.

• You have drawn the fifth of five seas that framed the biblical world.

• Today this sea is called the PERSIAN GULF.

Black Sea Caspian Sea

Great Sea (Mediterranean)

Red Sea

Eastern Sea(Persian Gulf)

SEAS5• On your map draw waves on the surface of the five seas.

• The land between these seas is the biblical world of the Old Testament.

• The land between the five seas is the place where Asia, Europe and Africa meet.

• REVIEW: the five seas are. . .

the GREAT. the RED. the EASTERN .

the BLACK . the CASPIAN.

ASIA

EUROPE

AFRICA

Black Sea Caspian Sea

Great Sea (Mediterranean)

Red Sea

Eastern Sea(Persian Gulf)

MOUNTAINS2• Where the folds meet in the center on top

• Noah’s ark rested on Mount ARARAT.

draw a mountain.• On the land bridge between the Red Sea and the Great sea

draw a mountain.

• God gave his Word to his people on Mount SINAI.

• Across the top from the “thumb” to the Persian Gulf draw mountains.

• Old Testament believers knew that mountains

stretched across the top of the world they knew.

MountSinai

MountArarat

RIVERS4• From Ararat

• You have drawn the first of the four major

rivers of the Bible world. It is the TIGRIS.

to the top of the Eastern Seadraw a curved line that skirts the mountains.

Tigris

RIVERS4• From Ararat

• You have drawn the second of the four major rivers of the Bible world. It is the

EUPHRATES.

to the top of the Eastern Seadraw a curved line that mirrors the Tigris.Euphrates

• The Tigris and Euphrates cradled the earliest civilization

RIVERS4• Mark the place where fold lines cross below the Great Sea.

• You have drawn the third of the four major

rivers of the Bible world. It is the NILE.

• Draw a line up the fold line to this spot.• From this spot draw a “V” that reaches the Great Sea.

• The Nile cradled the other earliest civilization.

Nile

RIVERS4• Mark a place to the right of the Great Sea on the center fold line.

• You have drawn the fourth of the four major rivers of the Bible world. It is the

JORDAN.

• Mark another spot halfway down to the Red Sea.• Join the two.• The city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley is the oldest known city to be lived in continuously up to the present day.

Jordan

MOUNTAINS & RIVERS

• REVIEW: the two mountains the TIGRIS the EUPHRATES the NILE

Mount ARARAT Mount SINAI

the JORDAN

and the four rivers . . .

Mount Ararat

Mount Sinai

Tigris

Euphrates

Nile

Jordan

HABITAT1

• This strip of land was well wateredeither by rivers, or by rain falling on the eastern coast of the Great Sea.

• Mark a place where the Nile leaves the map at the bottom• Mark another place where the Tigris and Euphrates enter the Easter Sea.

• Shade a crescent shaped strip of land between the two points as shown

• Historians have named this the FERTILE CRESCENT.

Fertile Crescent

In this crescent of fertile land early civilization flourished.

SONS OF NOAH3

• Below the Fertile Crescent was desert,the Sahara Desert in Africa,the Arabian Desert in Asia,and the Sinai Desert in between.

• After the Flood people spread out .• The offspring of

SHEM moved southeast.• The offspring of

HAM moved southwest.• The offspring of

JAPHETH spread east and west north of the mountains.

J A P H E T H

S H E M

H A M

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Nations

Seas

Rivers

Sons of Noah

Mountains

Habitat

REVIEW One

Learning Categories

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43

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Nations

Seas

Rivers

Sons of Noah

Mountains

Habitat

Egypt Canaan Aram AssyriaBabylonia Persia

Black Caspian GreatRed Eastern

Tigris EuphratesNile Jordan

Shem HamJapheth

AraratSinai

Fertile Crescent

REVIEW Two

Learning what’s in

the categories

65

43

21

Nations

Seas

Rivers

Sons of Noah

Mountains

Habitat

Egypt Canaan Aram Assyria Babylonia Persia

Black Caspian Great Red Eastern

Tigris Euphrates Nile Jordan

Shem Ham Japheth

Ararat Sinai

Fertile Crescent

REVIEW Three

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