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 Students must choose *five (5) locations* out of thirteen (13) to set up their GIS map. They place a monument or object at each location. Students will enter the metadata information based on their scholarly research. They must use at least two peer-reviewed references and two citations for each location’s monument or object. They can also use their class lecture notes. 
 
-If you're old-school and prefer writing in HTML, you can still do that too. You can also combine HTML with your Markdown to add things like `<iframe>` and custom scripts in the same Markdown document.
-{: .note}
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 Locations include: 
 - Constantinople
 - Cordoba
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 - Saint Catherine (Mount Sinai; Sinai Peninsula)
 - Venice
 - Toledo
-{: .prereq}
 
-We will use ArcGIS StoryMaps, which is a web-based story-authoring application, to create and share your digital map of monuments and objects in the medieval Mediterranean with narrative text, images, sources, videos, audio, and other multimedia content. 
+We will use [ArcGIS StoryMaps](https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-storymaps/overview), which is a web-based story-authoring application, to create and share your digital map of monuments and objects in the medieval Mediterranean with narrative text, images, sources, videos, audio, and other multimedia content.