Historical Map   Map List   Instructions: Click the "View Interactive Map" button to experience an interactive version of the map below. Enter your answers to the Critical Thinking Questions in the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page. If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the Email button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately. Macintosh Users: If you have been instructed to submit your reponses to your instructor, you must enter your responses, then click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page to receive a printer-friendly version of your responses that you can then print and turn in to your instructor.     Critical Thinking Questions     1. In what ways could geographical proximity of colonies have been important for the colonizing powers? What would be the advantages and disadvantages to having colonies close together? What would be the advantages and disadvantages to having them spread throughout the region? 2. Look at the Straight of Malacca, the narrow strip of ocean between Malacca and Malaya. This was a preferred route for shipping once steamships became common in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Why would Britain be concerned about controlling the Straight of Malacca? 3. Using information you find in your text, in the library, and on the Internet, summarize at least two wars that occurred in Southeast Asia that were at least partially due to colonialism.   Student Name:* Student Email:*   Professor Name:*   Professor Email:*         *required