About This Lesson
This handout shows two maps of Europe. 1 is Europe shaped like a queen with Spain.Portugal as the head/crown and Italy/Sicily as the Religious strength, and the rest of Europe as a collection of lands and cities. The students must analyze the biases in the map and also the motive for drawing a map like this. The 2nd map shows an accurate map of Europe during the Habsburg reign of Charles V, asking students to match the cities from the front map to those on the back. The goal is for them to just get more comfortable looking at a map of Europe.
