Map Skills In History

Map Skills

Study this map to answer the following question.

Why would a historian use this map?

Multiple Choice

Why would a historian use this map?

• To study the Silk Road

• To study how Africa is connected to the trade routes from Asia

• To study how the Black Death spread from Asia to Europe

• To study the routes taken to explore the Americas

Map Skills

Name three
continents
impacted by the
Black Death.

Multiple Select

According to this map, identify three continents impacted by the Black Death.

• Australia

• Africa

• Asia

• Europe

Map Skills

According to this map, where was the FIRST place in Europe impacted by the Black Death?

Multiple Choice

According to this map, identify the FIRST European nation to experience the Black Death.

• Italy

• Spain

• France

• England

Map Skills

What feature of this map will help a student of history to decide what the details and markings on the map mean? (Ex. the black circles, lines and arrows, and the circles)

​Name one Asian and one North African large trading town.

Multiple Choice

When using a map in history, what should we use to understand what the markings and details on the map mean?

• the compass rose

• the map key/legend

• the lines of latitude and longitude

• the map title

Multiple Select

According to the map entitled "Eurasian and Africa World Systems in the Fifteenth Century", name one Asian and one Northern African large trading town.

• Peking

• Paris

• Cairo

• Timbuktu

Map Skills

Use the map to
identify a city in
West Africa that is
linked to Cairo on
the trans-saharan
trade routes:

Multiple Choice

Using the previous map, identify one West African city that is connected to trade routes.

• Paris

• Peking

• Timbuktu

• London