Sir Francis Drake
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- Drake was born in 1540 in Devonshire, England
- Drake died in 1596
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EARLY LIFE
In his early years, Sir Francis Drake, the son of a yeoman, was apprenticed to a ship captain and learned to navigate using the sun at day and the stars at night.
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INTERESTING FACTS
- when he was a man Sir Francis Drake looted spanish ships
- Drake was considered as one of Englands best explorers
- It took Drake three years to circumnavigate the world
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SPONSOR
Sir Francis Drakes sponsor was Queen Elizabeth 1 of England.
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MOTIVES
- Drakes motives consist of
- exploring trade and settlement
- to find a western passage of the northwest passage
- to find an unknown conntinent
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ROUTE
The route of Sir Francis Drake is from England, around the bottom of south America along the coasts of Asia and back to England
ACOMPLISHMENTS
- Drake had many acomplishments including
- finding fruit, goats, hens and salt
- he wasd the first E nglishman to cirrcumnavigate the globe
- he sank many spanish war ships
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IMPACT
- England had more accurate geography
- Drake led ships to be able to go under south America through Cape Horn
- ships could now sail from the Pacific Ocean into the Pacific
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