HIS 2326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Elizabethan Era, Extortion, Knowledge Engineering
23 Jul 2018
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Impediments to expansion in the english world: emergence of the tudor regime - help shape the way the english see expansion, opportunities and challenges of expansion (1550s onwards, elizabethan age (1550s - turn of the 17th c) Invested in extortion: protected interests with force as necessary. Spanish: monarchy also relied on the league for its trade interests, rift b/w the monarch and english traders. Local knowledge from fisherman who travelled to the north atlantic. Seeking personal fortune: expansion power and privilege of the tudors. Finding trade routes to china would be the prestige he was looking for: cabot voyages = failure or at least disappointing in comparison to the portuguese and. Spanish: no gold or silver, made four voyages, newfoundland and new england, produced limited success, four points: Descendants found it increasingly difficult to invest in the risk of exploration: results were not very good, exploration diminishes.
