Tudor SailorsTudor Sailors - The Age of Exploration The great Tudor Age of Exploration was at first dominated by the Portuguese and the Spanish but during the Elizabethan era of the Tudors sailors and explorers such as the great Sir Francis Drake (1542-1596), Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618), Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583), Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595), Sir Richard Grenville (1541-1591) and Sir Martin Frobisher (1535-1594) emerged. The Tudor sailors sought opportunities to acquire wealth, fame and power in distant lands following the lead of the Spanish and Portuguese sailors of the Tudor era. The Motives of the Tudor Sailors The motives of the Tudor sailors to undertake the dangerous voyages of discovery were: - The crusading spirit of adventurers and explorers
- Commercial Motives - The acquisition of new lands and spices, precious stones, drugs, perfumes, gums, dyes and various woods
- New technology such as the compass were introduced which would guide the Tudor Sailors across the waters of the world enabling Tudor sailors to find their bearing in the fog
- Improvements in Navigation such as Astrolabes for calculating latitudes, the Telescope, Charts and Maps, Cross-staffs which were used to measure the angle of the Sun or a star above the horizon, Nocturnals and Quadrants for measuring and timekeeping and Almanacs which forecast precisely where the the sun, moon, planets and navigational stars would be hour by hour and for years in the future
The Names of Famous Tudor Sailors The names of the most famous Tudor Sailors are as follows: Tudor Sailors English | Tudor Sailors Spanish | Tudor Sailors European | Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Humphrey Gilbert Sir Richard Grenville Sir John Hawkins Sir Martin Frobisher Sir Richard Hawkins John Cabot Sebastian Cabot Henry Hudson | Christopher Columbus Francisco Pizarro Amerigo Vespucci Vasco Nunez de Balboa Juan Ponce de Leon Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Hernando De Soto Hernando Cortes Cabeza de Vaca Panfilo de Narvaez Fray Marcos de Niza Alonso Alvarez de Pineda Juan de Onate Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo | Ferdinand Magellan Vasco da Gama Bartholomeu Dias Pedro Alvares Cabral Gaspar Corte Real Miguel Corte Real Giovanni da Verrazzano Jacques Cartier Jacques Marquette Samuel de Champlain Marco Polo |
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