MAP I: 15 points

THE WORLD IN 1914. Use blue-white World outline map to be purchased from El Corral.

1. Using maps 7.1 and 8.1 in Findley-Rothney and maps 33 and 41 in Hammond, identify the colonies in the Western Hemisphere, Africa and Asia which constituted the empires of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands (Dutch), the Ottoman Empire (see map), Portugal, Spain, U.S. and Japan as of 1914. Use either color or some other code to identify to which imperialist countries the various territories belong. Name the colonial territories you have identified above.

E.g.: Draw the borders of India, name it and show it to have been a part of the British Empire.

In the case of Africa, identify and name only those territories named in bold-face type in the Hammond Atlas: e.g. Rhodesia, and Union of South Africa, French Equatorial Africa, French West Africa, Kamerun, Nigeria, Mozambique, etc.

Caution: the color code on Map H41 in Hammond does not apply to "Asia in 1914," nor does the purple showing Chosen-Korea as a part of the Japanese Empire, apply to Nepal, Siam or Persia which is implied. On the Asia map, you will need to look whether there is a paranthesis in which one of the colonial powers is specified. E.g., Chosen (today known as Korea) is shown to be a colony of Japan.

In addition, using map H-41 in Hammond, locate and name the independent Asian countries, east of 60 degrees longitude, that were independent in 1914. .

2. Locate and label each of the following: Oceans: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian: Seas: Red, Arabian, East China, South China, Other: Suez Canal, the Persian Gulf, the Bay of Bengal

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