MAP: EUROPEAN AND CHINESE EXPLORATION 1405 - 1611 Label cities and draw the route of each explorer, using the color-code guide below, and indicate along the route the explorer’s name, date of exploration and country sponsoring the exploration. An example shown below should be used as a guide. The atlases in the library are your best reference (look for ‘Age of Discovery’ atlas), and while the only recommended websites are: http://www.mariner.org (the ‘age of exploration’ link), http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/explorer_map_shepherd.jpg  (historical atlas), and http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kishlansky_cw_5/0,6472,268318-,00.html , it may be beneficial to do specific and precise searches on Gilman’s online database of maps and the internet (useful keywords/phrases: ‘voyages of discovery’ and ‘age of exploration’). Explorers: Cheng Ho (1405-1433) - red Bartholomeu Dias (1487-1488) - blue Christopher Columbus (1492-1493 – 1st Voyage) - orange Vasco de Gama (1497-1499) - brown Ferdinand Magellan / J. S. del Cano (1519-1521) – black [*use a dotted line after Magellan’s death] Jacques Cartier (1535-1536) - purple Francis Drake (1577-1580) - yellow Henry Hudson (1609/1610-11) - green Label Cities: Amsterdam Cadiz Lisbon London Plymouth St. Malo Shanghai