E conomic Aspects of Exploration Map Directions: Draw a sugar bag next to the West Indies to symbolize the products important to the area sugar Draw 4 tiny forts along the entire coast of West Africa and label them ‘European Outposts’ TRIANGULAR TRADE: Create the triangular trade on your map by using pg Your arrows will create a triangle when you are done. 1.Draw a solid black arrow from West Africa to North America, draw a stick figure above the arrow, and label it ‘slaves’ to symbolize the slaves being traded from Africa to the West Indies and the American Colonies. Then draw a dotted black arrow pointed the opposite direction (from North America to West Africa). Below the dotted arrow draw in a bottle and a treasure chest and label them ‘rum’ and ‘gold’ to symbolize the products being traded from the West Indies and America to Africa. 2. Draw a solid black arrow from North America to Europe and label above it ‘tobacco, fur, sugar, molasses, cotton’ to represent Colonial goods being traded to Europe. Draw a dotted arrow from Europe to North America, then below that line label ‘manufactured goods’ to symbolize goods coming to the Colonies from Europe 3. Draw a long black arrow from Europe to West Africa. Label above the line ‘guns, manufactured goods’ Part II:

P olitical Aspects of Exploration Key Vocabulary Associated with this area: Conquistador- political alliance- Unification- Colony- centralized government- Map Directions: Use the explorers map in your book on page 121 and the atlas pages 8 –11 to help you with this section. Explorers Routes: Portugal – Dias and DaGama draw a green route from Portugal, south around the tip of Africa, over to India Spain – Columbus and Magellan draw a purple route from Spain to the West Indies draw a purple route from Spain, down the coast of South America and across the Pacific France – Cartier draw an orange route from France to Newfoundland England – Hudson and Smith draw a red route from England, across the Atlantic to the Hudson Bay draw a red route from England, across the Atlantic to Plymouth and Jamestown (split the route at the end ) Routes by Countries Portugal (green) Spain (purple) France (orange) England (red) Create a legend (and color w/appropriate colors) in an open area of your map that looks like this:

In the margin, draw and label a box with the information below. Include color-coded arrows on the map for each….you choose the colors but indicate them on the chart key. The Columbian Exchange Old World to New WorldNew World to Old World wheat bananas rice sugar horses cattle pigs diseases corn potatoes beans squash cocoa tobacco pumpkin avocadoes Arrow color R eligious Aspects of Exploration Map Directions: Key Vocabulary Associated with this area: Missionaries- Mark a on North America and South America symbolizing the spread of religious beliefs from Europe to the Native Americans.