Using Map 16.3, can you identify at least nine geostrategic maritime locations (choke points, straits) that impacted this period of history and continue to be significant today?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, Bab al Mandeb, Bosporous Straits, English Channel, Isthmus of Panama.
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