The term cradle of civilization has frequently been applied to a variety of cultures and areas, in particular the Ancient Near Eastern Chalcolithic (Ubaid period) and Fertile Crescent. It has also been applied to ancient Anatolia, the Levant, Armenia and Iran.
The Washington Meridian runs north on a longitude of 91Â°09â²36â³W from the base line, which is the MississippiâLouisiana border at latitude 31Â° north. The Washington Meridian is the basis of cadastral surveys in southwestern Mississippi, south of the Choctaw Meridian base line and west of the territory of the Saint Stephens Meridian. The Washington Meridian shares the same initial point as the Saint Helena Meridian, which runs south from that initial point.
Senior Fellow in Electrical Engineering. The longitude of a point on earth is the angle, east or west, between that point. and a certain reference line on the earth. If you take a globe or a map and draw a line through all the points that have. exactly the same longitude, the line you get is the meridian of that longitude.The reference line is the meridian of zero longitude, called the Prime Meridian.atitude is the angle north or south between a place and the equator. Longitude is the angle east or west between the same place and the Prime Meridian. With only those two numbers, you can nail down any point on the Earth. 1 person found this useful.