Mapping Connections across Afro-Eurasia

This exercise will help illustrate the extent to which the Mongol Empire facilitated global connections in the several centuries leading up to 1500. After creating your map, answer the questions that follow.

Using either a single outline map of Afro-Eurasia or a hand-drawn map of the Eastern Hemisphere, write labels for the following (use different colored pencils or other codes such as capital letters to show different types of labels): the four Mongol khanates; the following places on the periphery of the Mongol Empire: Vietnam, Burma, India, Arabia, Anatolia, Hungary, Siberia, and Japan; arrows showing the movement of major trade routes; arrows showing the source of the Black Death and its movement through Afro-Eurasia. For help drawing your map, consult the following maps from the book: Map 9.3, “The Growing World of Islam”; Map 9.6, “West Africa and the World of Islam”; Map 10.3, “Europe in the High Middle Ages”; Map 11.1, “The Mongol Empire”; and Map 11.2, “Trade and Disease in the Fourteenth Century.”

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