Global Trade 1500

Use the map to label the following 1500 era trade routes (you will need 6 colored pencils....)• Silk Road/routes across Asia to

Mediterranean basin

• Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean

• Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa

• Northern European sea and river trade

• Western European sea and river trade

• South China Seas and lands of Southeast Asia

Silk Road

Arab World Dominates- Indian Ocean

Afro Eurasian Trade Routes 1500

South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia

Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa

Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa

Northern European links with the Black Sea

Northern European links with the Black Sea

What was the name of the trade network in the North Sea and Baltic

regions @ 1430?

The Hanseatic League- this was a trade association with trading cities across northern Europe, at the end of the Middle Ages

Western European sea and river trade

What river makes up the border between modern day France and

Germany?

The Rhine river