The RMS Lusitania was a ship that sailed from New York and had American civilians in - at that point the US was neutral in the WWI -, when the ship came to the sight of the Irish Coast the German U-boat attacked it.
Despite the fact that Americans were horrified at the Lusitania attack, many Americans did not like the idea to enter the war, Irish Americans did not enjoy the idea of helping Britain because the country denied Ireland its independence, German Americans were sympathetic towards their ancestral homeland and Americans saw no reason to enter into a war between European powers. The US only entered war two and a half years after it started.
Franics drake having completing the first circumnavigation of the world a few months earlier he was knighted
They spread trade across the Mediterranean and through the Asian, African and European continents.
Answer:
stocked up on food water and weapons
Agricultural development led early societies to settle. Settlements required growing food and a lasting source of water. That's why these early civilizations were born around rivers. The proximity of rivers facilitated access to fertile soil and, logically, to water.
Once a civilization has a stable source of food it can start growing surplus of it, which creates the possibility of trade. That is, stable food production is a base for the complexification of a society that can lead to the creation of other jobs, like the merchant.
It also enables a society to complexify its social structures, to build cities, to develop religion and culture which creates more jobs.
