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CHAPTER 14 Map Activity

France’s Colonial Empire France once had one of the largest colonial empires in the world. The map below shows French possessions and former colonies in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Examine the map and answer the questions on the following page.

French Empire, 1914

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60°N 60°N CANADA OR St. Pierre and NEW FRANCE Miquelon Is. 1763 FRANCE ° Newfoundland 1713 40 N LOUISIANA Nova Scotia Corsica 40°N 1803 and Acadia 1713 FRENCH St. Croix 1753 INDIA 1809 (HAITI) St. Dominque Guadeloupe 20°N FRENCH 1763 INDOCHINA 20°N 1713 (St. Kitts) St. Christopher Dominica 1763 Martinique WEST AFRICA Pondicherry Clipperton 1814 St. Lucia Tobago 1814 FRENCH 1783 Grenada EQUATORIAL FRENCH 0° AFRICA SOMALILAND 0° Îles Wallis Marquesas FRENCH 1814 Amirante Is. Seychelles 1814 GUIANA Tuamotu Archipelago Comoro Is. Society Is. MADAGASCAR New Hebrides 20°S FRENCH 20°S Tubuai Is. POLYNESIA Mascarene Is. New Caledonia N Réunion

40°S W E 40°S Île Amsterdam S France and possessions in 1914 Crozet Is. Kerguélen Islands 60°S 60°S Former colonies with date of loss 80°S 140°W 100°W 60°W 20°W 0° 20°E 60°E 100°E 140°E

Chapter 14, Map Activity, continued

1. What colonies did France give up in 1713? What colonies did it lose in 1763?

2. What possessions did France still have in the Americas in 1914? What territory did it control in the Mediterranean?

3. Where was French Indochina?

4. What French possessions does the map show in the South Pacific?

5. Critical Thinking: Location Where were most of France’s colonial possessions in 1914? How might location have played a part in that?

ACTIVITY With a classmate, do research on one of France’s current overseas possessions. Create an illustrated poster that presents key facts about the territory and its people. Include an analysis of the territory’s political status and why it remains a French possession.

Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Holt World Geography Today 28 Map Activities the Alps are generally poor in mineral and War II, mainly to Poland, and was split energy resources into eastern and western states. The two 5. silver; titanium and molybdenum capitals were Bonn and Berlin. 6. Europe’s location is an advantage, since it 4. Germany was reunited, with Berlin as its is close to Asia and Africa. The continent’s capital. small size and long coastline makes 5. Germany was well located to expand in importing by sea and land relatively almost all directions, but Germany actu- convenient. ally lost territory as a result of the wars. Activity Activity Students should choose a mineral or energy Students should be able to find a variety of resource and prepare a chart or poster that articles that focus on social, economic, and reveals key facts about it, including a descrip- political issues, including problems of eco- tion of the mineral, its uses, its extraction, and nomic disparity between eastern and western where it is found. Germany, and concerns among other European countries about a united Germany’s Chapter 14 strength and influence. 1. northern New France (Canada), Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Acadia, Chapter 16 St. Kitts; southern New France (United 1. Madrid; Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y States), Dominica, French India León 2. French Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, 2. Andalusia; Seville Clipperton, St. Pierre and Miquelon Is.; 3. The Balearic Islands are east of Spain, in Corsica the Mediterranean, while the Canary 3. in Southeast Asia, specifically the modern Islands lie southwest of Spain and west of nations of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Morocco; approximately 28˚N, 15˚W 4. French Polynesia (including Society 4. Catalonia, Asturias, and Extremadura, Islands, Tubuai, Tuamotu, Marquesas, and respectively Iles Wallis), New Hebrides (Vanuatu), and 5. They are all in the far north, on the edge New Caledonia of the Spanish heartland and bordering 5. in Africa; Africa was relatively close to either France, the Atlantic, or the France, which could offer advantages for Mediterranean. trade and governance Activity Activity Students should discuss a current article about Student posters should provide details about the Basque conflict and show an understand- the government, economy, and society of a ing of the cultural, political, and economic French possession, such as Tahiti, New issues that have divided the Basque region Caledonia, or French Guiana, and explain why from Spain. that territory remains part of France. Chapter 17 Chapter 15 1. critically degraded areas; heavily polluted 1. They show Germany’s territory at four bodies of water, including rivers; high different times: 1914, 1920–1938, levels of acid rain; degraded forest areas 1945–1990, 1990. 2. critically degraded areas, acid rain, pol- 2. Germany lost territory between 1914 and luted water 1920 and had a piece of land, East Prussia, 3. acid rain, polluted water, degraded forests separated from the rest of the country. It 4. in the Barents Sea and Kara Sea; in lost territory to Denmark and Poland. Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, and Krasnoyarsk 3. Germany lost territory as a result of World 5. Both the Black and Caspian seas are