Grade 6 - Lesson 3

Why did people travel in the past?

• Exploration and discovery

• Pilgrimage and trade

• Famine, war, visiting families

• All of the above

What potential risks and dangers did the travelers of the past face?

• Pirates

• Difficult terrain (road) and no proper means of transport.

• Needed money and permission from family to travel.

• All of the above

Maps of the past were created from

• Memory, values, knowledge that they wanted to portray, their values.

• Computers

• Books

What is Fatima & Hadi’s father’s occupation? He was a great scholar and a very learned man. He had vast knowledge about the geography of the world as known in his time.

• True

• False

Navigation means the art of getting from one place to another safely and efficiently.

• False

• True

What is Geography?

• Study of stars

• Study of the past

• Making of the maps

• The study of Earth’s landscapes, peoples, places and environments

Cartographer makes maps.

• True

• False

Who is Ptolemy?

• Famous astronomer, mapmaker wrote a book called the Almagest.

• A Muslim Scientist

• A Portuguese explorer

• An Italian painter

Astrolabe is for measuring the angles of the stars and the sun. One of the Astrolabe is at the

• Aga Khan Museum

• Ismaili Centre Toronto

• Brampton JK

• Etobicoke JK

An astronomer is a scientist who focuses primarily on the study of space, which includes the stars, the planets and the galaxies above us. Many Muslim astronomers in the past studied stars from the observatories.

• False

• True