Geography Lesson

 Do you have an old globe or atlas?  Perhaps, your parents have an old globe at their home.  Look up the names of countries.  For example Burma is Myanmar.  Zimbabwe was Rhodesia at one time.  Bombay, India is now Mumbai.  Research the time period and circumstances which led to the change.  What were the geopolitics involved?  Which countries were part of the former Soviet Union?  The older the globe or atlas, the livelier the lesson.  Here is a lesson about the standardization of different countries’ names.