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Flashcards by Sea Chel Pie, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sea Chel Pie
over 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 1578 | Sir Humfrey Gilbert sets out to N.America on voyage of exploration but fails and is bankrupted |
| 1580 | Drake returns from circumnavigating the globe with spices, treasure, and tales of Nova Albion |
| 1583 | Gilbert leads another voyage of exploration to america. It failed. Gilbert dies on the return journey |
| 1584 | Raleigh begins planning new colonisation attempt by sending a fact-finding mission in Virginia |
| 1585 | Colonists set sail for North America to begin the English colonisation of Virginia |
| 1586 | Surviving colonists abandon Virginia and return back to Engliand |
| 1587 | A new group of colonists arrive in Virginia and establish a colony at Roanoke |
| 1590 | English sailors arrive at Roanoke only to find it abandoned. All colonists disappeared |
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