Chapter 30 India Under the Moguls
Map 1. India borders three bodies of water: the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Indian Ocean to the south, and the
Arabian Sea to the west. Outline the coast of India in dark blue. Begin where the Ganges River meets the
Bay of Bengal and end where the Indus River meets the Arabian Sea.
2. Circle the name “Bay of Bengal” in yellow. Do the same for “Indian Ocean” and “Arabian Sea.” Then fill in
the three circles with yellow.
3. Color all the surrounding water in light blue (outside of the yellow circles).
4. Babur the Tiger conquered the city of Delhi and named himself its emperor. Delhi, now called New Delhi,
is also the capital of India today. Put a red box around the city of Delhi and draw a red star above it.
5. The capital city of Moghul India was Agra. Babur the Tiger built a beautiful garden there. To signify the
breathtaking garden in Agra, circle the city in green and color it in. (If you want, you can also draw flowers
around the city, because Babur called his garden the Garden of the Scattered Flowers.)
6. Babur came to India from the Mongol lands in the north. Beginning at the top right-hand side of your map,
draw a red arrow from the top (north) border of the map, down across the Ganges, and point the end of the
arrow at Delhi.
Ch 31 Routes of the Great Explorers (Student Page 128, answer 261)
Trace the journeys of Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and Ferdinand Magellan.
1. Christopher Columbus tried to find a new western trade route to India. Underline India in green.
2. Trace the path of Columbus’s journey. Using green, begin at the Iberian Peninsula, where Spain and Portu-
gal are located. Follow the dotted line across the Atlantic Ocean. Columbus thought he had reached India,
but he had really landed off the coast of Florida.
3. Trace the path of Vasco da Gama in blue. Da Gama found a new trade route to India by sailing around the
tip of Africa. Begin again at the Iberian peninsula. Then follow the dotted line along the coast of Africa.
4. Ferdinand Magellan sailed all the way around the world. Trace his journey around the world in red. Begin
at the Iberian peninsula and follow the line down to the tip of South America. Then continue to the middle
of the Pacific Ocean (the ocean that Magellan named!). Now because this is only a flat map and the world
is actually round, move your crayon or marker to the right hand side of the page. Continue to the islands
to the south of China.