Exploration And Voyages Of Discovery

Question 1

What led the Elizebethans to explore?

Answer 1

To expand trade
The triangular trade
Adventure
New technology

Question 2

Why did expanding trade led the Elizebethans to explore?

Answer 2

New trading oppotunities - also to sell cloth and wool to
Reports said that there was a lot of new material, crops and potential profit in the new world
Spain had become rich from the new world with Silver mines in Peru and tobacco exports

Question 3

Why was finding new trade oppotunities assensial for merchants?

Answer 3

Wool trade was slowing down due to conflic with Spain - they needed new customers

Question 4

Who was John Hawkings?

Answer 4

Key figure in the deffet of the Spainsh Armarder
Slave trader
Navigator

Question 5

Desdribe some of John Hawkings first slave trade journeys?

Answer 5

He went to Africa in 1562 - transported them across the Atlantic and sold them to Spanish colonists. He them boight Ginger, animal hides, sigar and pearls, made a high profit andrepeated the joirney in 1564

Question 6

Hwo did adventure make Elizebethans want to explore?

Answer 6

They wanted to find the “north-west pasage”

People wanted to become famouse and rich when they red about voyages

Question 7

Why did New technology make Elizebethans want to explore?

Answer 7

Navigation
Maps
Ship design

Question 8

Why did better navigation mean that more Elizebethans went exploring?

Answer 8

It was easier and less chance of getting lost, made them faster as more and easier mathimatical ways of naviagting were published in books

Question 9

What were 2 better navigation techniques that were discovered?

Answer 9

Quadrant

Astrolabe

Question 10

What was the navigational techinique called Quadrant?

Answer 10

Similar to astrolabe, it was used by sailors to help with navigation at sea.

It was in the shape or a quater circle

Question 11

What was an astrolabe?

Answer 11

An intrument to help with navigation which was circular

Question 12

How was their an improvment in maps?

Answer 12

They became more acurate as ship journals were better
In 1569 the Mercator map was developed
Printing of maps ment that they could be used by a lot of people and you didn’t need to make your own map which would be wrong (or use someone elses like a friend)

Question 13

What new map was deceloped in 1569

Answer 13

Mercator map

Question 14

Who developed the Mercator map?

Answer 14

Gerardus Mercator

Question 15

Hwo did the Mercator map work?

Answer 15

It ised lines of lattitude and longitude to place land more accuratly on maps

Question 16

How did shipyards help increase exploration?

Answer 16

New and better ships could be built quicker and in large quanitites

Question 17

Hwo did ships become better?

Answer 17

Large and more stable
Faster and more manuverable
Better fire power

Question 18

What was rhe new type of English ship called?

Answer 18

Galleons

Question 19

What were other advantages of galleons?

Answer 19

They could carry larger cargoe
They were also more stable fast and manuverable as they were designed to be like fish
They were also faster and more manuverable because they used different sails on the same vessel (some were better for different things)
There were more sails menaing they were faster and the boat could bemoved more acuratly
They could also deffend themselfs really well from piracy

Question 20

Hwo long did Drakes circumnavigation of the golve take?

Answer 20

Almost 3 years

1577-80

Question 21

What did Elizebeth do when Drake returned from his circumnavigation?

Answer 21

She knited him on the deck of the royal Hind (which really angered Phillip)

Question 22

Why did Drake circumnavigate the world?

Answer 22

He didn’t mean to. He went to the west side of America to raid the Spanish and couldn’t find the north west passage so he went the other way around the world

Question 23

What happened to Drake (with whom) in their 1567-68 voyage?

Answer 23

The Spanish had attacked him and John Hawkins. Drake wanted revenge on the Spanish

They were attacked at St Juan de Ulúa

325 sailors killed - Drake and Hawkins returned to England with 15 sailors

Question 24

How mich did Drake make in his circumnavigation of the world?

Answer 24

£500,000 of Elozebethan money

(Not it would be worth over £100 million

Question 25

Why was Drakes voyage almost a disaster?

Answer 25

He set sail with 5 but when he got into the Pacific he was left woth only the Golden Hind

Question 26

Who was executed?

For what on the Circumnavigation of the globe?

Answer 26

Captian Thomas Doughty in 1578 for munity

Question 27

How many people survived the cirmumnavigation of the globe?

Answer 27

He had 56 surviving men who returned to England

Question 28

Why was Drakes Circumnavigation so significant?

Answer 28

Angered Phillip when Elizebeth knited Drake
He mad a lot of money for the crown
It gave England a morral boost as it was the second person to ever do this
It encouraged exploration
Novia Albion was claimed for England
Encouraged England to make colonies

Question 29

When was a part of America claimed for the Queen?

Where?

Answer 29

June 1579
The golden Hind was in urgent need of repair so it stopped (somewhere near morden day San Francisco.

He named the Region Nova Albion and claimed it for the Queen

Question 30

Who first went to the Americas on Elizebeth’s behalf to descover North America for a potential colony?

What happened?

Answer 30

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

It ended in disaster and he became bankrupt

But in 1583 he set sail again - this was partly encoiraged by Drakes cirumnavigation