How Did Captain Cook Influence The Ways See And Understand The Modern World
How Captain Cook influenced the ways see and understand the modern world
‘I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go’James Cook. So Captain Cook was born in 1778 originally a apprentice in Whitby before becoming a sailor and in time a British naval officer a veteran of the seven year war. Cook is unquestionably known for his three voyages of expiration and discovery that took place in the Pacific. The first voyage was between 1768 and 1771 the second between 1772 and 1775, the third between 1776 and 1780 although on the final voyage the journey ended prematurely for Cook since he died.
View image 1 Cook voyages laid down the foundations to what we know as the Pacific today. He mapped the coast of Australia paving the way for British colonisation also indirectly paving the way for the near elimination of the Aboriginal population, as with the Columbus exchange Captain Cook …show more content…
One explanation is it fits in with other stories of explores meeting indigenous people, you’ve heard before the Aztecs and Tinos mistook Cortés and Columbus as gods and this puts Captain Cook in a long line of Europeans thought to be gods by people who the Europeans thought were savages. Depicting cook as a god also sets up a stark contrast between the idea of the enlightened Westerners and in this case primitive Polynesians because Captain Cook often appears in books as a brave intelligent man sure he barely had any formal schooling but his voyages were about increasing our knowledge by scientific exploration and having him killed by the hands of a people so backwards to think him a god makes a arguments to the superiority of the Europeans to this primitive superstitious
‘I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go’James Cook. So Captain Cook was born in 1778 originally a apprentice in Whitby before becoming a sailor and in time a British naval officer a veteran of the seven year war. Cook is unquestionably known for his three voyages of expiration and discovery that took place in the Pacific. The first voyage was between 1768 and 1771 the second between 1772 and 1775, the third between 1776 and 1780 although on the final voyage the journey ended prematurely for Cook since he died.
View image 1 Cook voyages laid down the foundations to what we know as the Pacific today. He mapped the coast of Australia paving the way for British colonisation also indirectly paving the way for the near elimination of the Aboriginal population, as with the Columbus exchange Captain Cook …show more content…
One explanation is it fits in with other stories of explores meeting indigenous people, you’ve heard before the Aztecs and Tinos mistook Cortés and Columbus as gods and this puts Captain Cook in a long line of Europeans thought to be gods by people who the Europeans thought were savages. Depicting cook as a god also sets up a stark contrast between the idea of the enlightened Westerners and in this case primitive Polynesians because Captain Cook often appears in books as a brave intelligent man sure he barely had any formal schooling but his voyages were about increasing our knowledge by scientific exploration and having him killed by the hands of a people so backwards to think him a god makes a arguments to the superiority of the Europeans to this primitive superstitious