Lines of latitude run north and south.

The Latitude line that circles the center of the globe ( halfway between the North pole and South Pole) is the equator.

The Prime Meridian passes through Greenwich, England.

The 5 oceans are Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Mediterranean.

The darker side of our ancestors points to the Catholic teaching of original sin, the doctrine that the human race had inherited from our first parents a flaw or tendency to do evil and to disobey God.

The Sumerians develop a form of writing called Cuneiform.

 The cradle of western civilization is ancient Greece.

Plato was Socrates’ student.

Rome was founded by Remus and Romulus.

After the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 Rome became the undisputed center of the church?

 Italy, France and Germany came from the Holy Roman Empire.

The Renaissance was a conscious effort to revive the learning and artistic grandeur of the ancient Greeks and Romans; a rebirth, to bring to the light.

Gutenburg’s invention of the printing press would begin to spread new ideas quickly throughout the West.

 Lower Kingdom is the ancient name for China.

The people of Japan call their country Nippon.

The  Sun Dynasty would give Japan all her emperors through modern times.

The Japanese people reacted to the Christian Faith openly and thousands converted.

The Vedas are the poems of the Aryan religion.

St Thomas the Apostle carried the Christian Faith to India in the 1st century AD.

Africa gave North America and the world Visual art, music, cuisine, and strong religious faith and love of family.

Europeans become involved in African slave trade because the New World needed laborers.