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CLEP Western Civ I

Category - Early Modern Europe

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The second circumnavigation of the globe was achieved by which Englishman?
  1. Henry the Navigator
  2. Henry Hudson
  3. John Cabot
  4. Francis Drake
  5. Walter Raleigh
Explanation
Answer: D - From 1577 to 1580, England’s Francis Drake undertook the second complete circumnavigation of the globe, following Portugal’s Ferdinand Magellan, who achieved the feat in 1522. Drake was a renowned sailor charged by Queen Elizabeth I with the raiding of Spanish ships. The queen knighted Drake in 1581, and he was second-in-command in the English defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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