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Big Great History - Coggle Diagram
Big Great History
The Wider World
Adventurers
Dr John Dee (1527-1609)
Idea of British Empire
Made navigation books and maps
Francis Drake (1540-94)
Circumnavigation
Claimed Land
The Golden Hind Knighted
Spice Islands -
Plundered Spanish Treasure Ships
Came back with £140000 (200 million today)
Humphrey Gilbert (1539-83)
Attemped to establish a colony in North America and failed (1579)
Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
Wanted to estabish a colony
Discovered Roanoke
Wrote a letter explaining the benefits colonisation
Spread Christianity
Failed to colonise
Good relationship with Elizabeth until Raleigh married Bess Thockmorton without permission
Imprisoned in the Tower of London for 5 years
James Lancaster
East India trading company
Ralph Fitch
Went to India to find trade in Asia, China and India
nathan is so mean
he is a meanie
a big meanie
yess
so rude honestly
yes he slapped me and took my lunch money
D: thats so hobrirble