World Monuments Map

         Geography is the study of places, including the people who live or have lived there. People have built monuments because something mattered, and to show that it mattered. They became a major part of where they were built and have often come to stand for that place.
     The heart of geography, and even the source of its name is the map—a picture of the world which organizes our understanding of places. Geography is not just the locations of political boundaries or the physical landscape, but also the cultural landscape.  Manipulating a map, assembling it, is the best way to learn where things are, and how near or far they are to each other.