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TUDOR EXPLORERS
This term we learning about explorers and we are focusing on explorers from Tudor Times. Here are some very famous Tudor sailors. Click on the link below to find out
more about them:
 
                                                                                     
 
           Christopher  Columbus             Sir  Francis  Drake           Sir  Walter  Ralegh
 
      Can you find out when these sailors lived?    
Why are they so famous? 
What was life like at sea?
 
The  slave trade across the atlantic ocean began in Tudor Times. 
Sir John  Hawkins was a favourite sailor of Queen Elizabeth I but he was also England's first Slave trader. 
 
Click on the picture of Sir John Hawkins and find out more about him. Then click on the picture of his coat of arms which features an African slave and find out about the life of a slave.
                                          

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