What key advances in knowledge and technology allowed Europeans to explore these new areas?
Your Answer: Compass
B, colonist kept taking land from the natives.
The answer is Sir Francis Drake. He is an English men but had nothing to do with Spain.
There is a detailed examination of his case at this link
http://www.washingtonhistoryonline.org/leschi/
Ive not read all of it myself but would expect the answer to your question to be there.
Unfortunately the "quashing" of his sentence came far too late to save him from being hung