The+New+World

The new world

The new world is one of the names used for the western hemisphere or as we know it today, America. It was called for “the new world” when the European explorer Christopher Columbus discovered America on November 1st 1492. Christopher Columbus referred to “the new world” in one of the letters he wrote. The people who already lived in “the new world” Christopher Columbus named the Indians because he thought he had arrived to India.  Christopher Columbus was not the only successful explorer another man who discovered most of the northern America, was named Sir Francis Drake. Sir Francis Drake was born in 1540 and then later on died the 27th January 1596. He was a vice admiral, sea captain, privateer, navigator and a slaver. Sir Francis Drake was also a very renowned politician of the Elizabethan era and Elizabeth the 1st of England made Sir Francis Drake a knight in 1581. He was a hero in the eyes of all English men but in the eyes of the Spanish people he was a vicious pirate sinking their ships, when Sir Francis drake destroyed the Spanish armada when it tried to invade England.  media type="youtube" key="WevsbWt74VA" width="547" height="472"

Other than being a victorious leader he was also the first person from England to circumnavigate the entire world. The belief that the lands were connected to each other had limited sea exploration for the explores but Drake's discovery that Tierra was a group of small islands, later led to the realization that ships would be able to sail around the bottom of South America, south of Tierra. This became the Cape Horn route as we know today which was ultimately discovered in 1616, but not by Drake.