What made the admiralty send him there? How did the political climate at that time contribute to him exploring Australia? What were the main influences?
2007-06-12 01:55:22 · 4 answers · asked by nebulae 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
http://www.muffley.net/pacific/cook/cook1.htm
here is the route of the vioyage and the reasons,people who went with him, journal etc.
2007-06-12 02:14:24 · answer #1 · answered by pelancha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Botony, exploration, land acquisition, science, knowledge, expansion of the British empire.
Sir Joseph Banks was a renaisance man who encouraged the exploration of the world. England was the leading maritime power at the time and Sir Joseph Banks convinced the British Admiralty to send one of its lesser ships, a collier (coal carrier) and one of the Admiralty's lesser officers, a 40 year old 'captain', to go out to the Great South Sea and see what was out there.
2007-06-12 02:55:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
to seek new life and new civilizations
to boldly go where no one had gone before
2007-06-12 03:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Money.
2007-06-12 01:57:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋