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#4120719 - 05/15/15 02:15 PM Medieval Map Quiz  
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I got 10 correct. This is a pretty challenging quiz but it can be a bit easier depending on how good your Latin is. smile

http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/11/quiz-medieval-maps/


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#4120722 - 05/15/15 02:30 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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11 correct. Some are damn near impossible because the pictures are too small to read anything.


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#4120723 - 05/15/15 02:32 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: Jayhawk]  
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Originally Posted By: Jayhawk
Some are damn near impossible because the pictures are too small to read anything.
Yup. I'm sure that was done intentionally of course to make it difficult.


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#4120729 - 05/15/15 02:48 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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6 out of 15. My Latin is non existent smile


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#4120731 - 05/15/15 02:56 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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The zoom on #3 was bull.


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#4120733 - 05/15/15 03:03 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I got 10, which isn't too bad if you consider even with a modern map I probably would have never gotten
Click to reveal..
the Orkney Islands and most likely not gotten the British Isle.

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#4120750 - 05/15/15 04:18 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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13/15 smile

#4120753 - 05/15/15 04:29 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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9 rite.

#4120774 - 05/15/15 05:47 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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13, got 6 and 10 wrong


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#4120785 - 05/15/15 06:09 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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No.2 wrong, possibly the easiest of the lot.

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#4120820 - 05/15/15 07:50 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I only got two wrong, one of which was England. Oops.


The order is randomized by the way.

#4120826 - 05/15/15 08:00 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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But I have the advantage of an education in medieval history, philology, and a bit of Latin.

Not a talent I get to use too often! wink

#4120833 - 05/15/15 08:16 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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And boast about even less.

#4120846 - 05/15/15 08:52 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4120868 - 05/15/15 10:53 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4120875 - 05/15/15 11:23 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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#4120878 - 05/15/15 11:32 PM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Missed three. Would've been four if Mudcat hadn't mentioned the Orkney Islands. No Latin knowledge at all, but it's not difficult to extrapolate what some of those words refer to.


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#4120894 - 05/16/15 12:41 AM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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If the test would have been fill in the blank instead of multiple choice I wonder how well we would have done? smile


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#4120947 - 05/16/15 06:23 AM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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13. The tight zoom of the red and blue ink
blackletter made that one just about impossible,
but I should have gone with the only bit
of language I recognized, rather than guessing
on style.

The island (with lots of mountains, tan shading along
the coast, and lots of little islands around it), I
have no excuse for, I was overthinking it, I should
have just gone with the shape it appeared to be (and
was), despite not recognizing any of the place names,
and especially the name of the sea, which I didn't bother
to look at, should have made it obvious.

Several of them had the name written right on the map,
in one place or another.


#4120950 - 05/16/15 07:05 AM Re: Medieval Map Quiz [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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11 right

No Latin here


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