History

• increased tension with Spain: causes

  • drake was a puritan and an anti-Spanish
  • 1568 Spanish attacked San Huan de Ulua - revenge
• Increased tension with Spain

  Causes

  • reaction of Spain Phillip I and Spanish ambassador
  • Spain increasing its colonists and defences in South America
  • fear drake
• Increase tension with the Spanish

  consequences

  • tension with Spain- Spain defeated and humiliated
  • France for lots of wealth
  • Spain he gain to fear drake
  • england plundered Spanish treasure ships
  • Spanish ambassador and Phillip demanded drake be punished
  • Elizabeth knighted Drake on Golden hind
  • 1558 Spanish Armada was a crucial consequences of drakes circumnavigation
• Causes


  • The age of exploration
  • Intrigue and mystery around Strait of Anian
  • Explorers like Martin Frobisher bad been exploring the Americans-may have inspired Drake