“Her Majesty may... have plenty of excellent trees for masts, of goodly timber to build ships and to make great navies, or pitch, tar, hemp, and all things for a royal navy, and that for no price, and without money or request. How easy a matter it may be to be the best and most cunning shipwrights in the world, to be lords of all those sea, and to spoil Philip’s Indian navy, and to deprive him of yearly passage of his treasure to Rome, and to abate the pride of Spain and the supporter of the great Anti-christ of Rome.”
Why England Should Sponsor the Colonies, Richard Hakluyt
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How does this quotation demonstrate a political/cultural cause of exploration and colonization?
