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The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
Skill Building: Maps
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Atlantic World, 1400-1625

  1. On the map of Africa and southern Europe on the following page, locate each of the following and explain its historical significance:
    Iberian peninsula
    Mediterranean Sea
    Morocco
    Sahara Desert
    Mali
    Songhai
    Timbuktu
    Benin
    Guinea
    Senegambia
    the Equator
    Cape of Good Hope
    Kongo
  2. On the map of Central and South America and the Caribbean, locate each of the following places and explain which European explorer and conqueror is associated with it:
    San Salvador (Guanahaní)
    Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
    Isthmus of Panama
    Caribbean Sea
    Pacific Ocean
    Atlantic Ocean
    Strait of Magellan
    Tenochtitlán (Mexico City)
    Puerto Rico
  3. On the map of North America, locate each of the following and indicate which European country had claimed and/or settled it by 1625:
    Great Lakes
    Mississippi River
    Great Plains
    Newfoundland
    Acadia (Nova Scotia)
    New Mexico
    St. Lawrence River
    St. Augustine, Florida
    Jamestown, Virginia, and James River
    Quebec
    Fort Nassau (later Albany, New York)
    New Amsterdam (later New York City)
    Roanoke Island (off the coast of North Carolina)
    Plymouth





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