The Spanish Armada Flashcards
How many ships did King Philip II launch in 1588?
151 ships
How many fireships did Sir Francis Drake command English sailors to strike?
8 fireships (burning ships)
How much money did the 5 Spanish ships in 1568 contain?
£100,000
The raid of which Spanish town was known as the ‘singeing of the King of Spain’s beard’?
Cadiz
In what month did the Spanish Armada reach Cornwall?
July
When did the raid of Cadiz happen?
1587
What did the attack coincide with which blew the Armada off course?
A storm
How many ships made it back to Spain?
65
How many meters away did the English fire at Spanish ships?
100m
When did Spain take control of Lisbon?
1580
Why did Philip invade?
England had interfered in the Spanish Netherlands
Who led the raid of Cadiz?
Sir Francis Drake
When did Columbus discover America?
1492
What year was the East India Company formed?
1600
What year did the Spanish Armada begin?
1588
What year did John Hawkins kidnap hundreds of West Africans?
1564
Name 3 Elizabethan British explorers:
Sir Walter Raleigh, John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake
When did Sir Francis Drake circumnavigate the globe?
1577-1580
What did Martin Cortes book “The Art of Navigation” teach people about?
How to navigate the Atlantic Ocean to America
Where did Humphrey Gilbert try and establish a colony?
Canada
Would living standards in Elizabethan England have been better if the Reformation had not happened?
- Catholic monasteries important in providing support & treatment for the sick/ill
- When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in the 1530s lots of this help disappeared
- Church now offered less support for the poor
