Hello there, and welcome to today's history lesson.

I'm Mr. Moss.

I'm really passionate about history, and I'm also really looking forward to teaching you.

With you today, you need to bring your looking eyes, your listening ears, and your thinking brains.

As well as that, having something to write with and write on and someone or something to talk to would also be really helpful.

All right then, let's get straight into today's history lesson.

In today's history lesson, we are going to be going on a really fun and exciting voyage.

We are going to be looking at William Adams' journey to Japan.

The outcome will be, I can describe William Adams' journey to Japan.

Here are the key words for today's learning.

My turn, your turn.

Make sure I can hear you saying these back to me, and keep an eye and an ear out for them today.

Atlantic Ocean.

Americas.

Asia.

Pacific Ocean.

So the Atlantic Ocean is the ocean between Europe and Americas.

This was one of the oceans that William Adams had to cross on his way to Japan.

The Americas are the continents of North and South America.

Asia is the continent to the east of Europe.

And the Pacific Ocean is the ocean between the Americas and Asia.

Another ocean that, on his long journey, Williams Adams had to cross to get to Japan, a country which is in the continent of Asia.

So we are looking at William Adams' journey to Japan.

We are first going to consider where did William Adams explore? And then we are going to look at what happened on William Adams' journey.

So where did William Adams explore? William Adams was an English seafarer.

A seafarer is someone who travels by sea and ocean, often by boat.

He went on many journeys about 450 years ago.

One of his journeys was to Japan.

He was one of the first Englishmen to visit and stay in Japan.

We have here an illustration of William Adams arriving in Japan and meeting some locals.

You can see his ship in the background.

It was a classic ship of the time with sails, a large hull, a narrow end, and a square back with a rudder.

William Adams would've used a variety of equipment in order to navigate his ship and himself to Japan.

He would've used things like compasses and astrolabes to help him.

He was navigating and exploring about a hundred years after John Cabot, the Italian explorer, under the commission of King Henry VII, had been exploring.

His journeys were about 200 years after Zheng He's incredible voyagers as well.

He was a great Chinese admiral who went as far as the continent of Africa from China.

He is important because he was the first English person to travel to Japan, a country in Asia.

Indeed, he was given the name Miura Anjin by the Japanese, and he stayed there until his death.

William Adams was the first English person to travel to, Spain, Japan or China? Pause the video now, saying complete the sentence with the correct country.

Off you go.

Good job, team.

William Adams was the first English person to travel to Japan.

Fantastic.

Remember, Japan is a country in the continent of Asia.

And we're going to be considering how he got there later on in this lesson.

He went on a very exciting voyage.

So William Adams was a navigator on one of five ships.

We can see here an illustration of the five ships that were travelling together across the Atlantic Ocean.

These ships had Dutch names.

They began by sailing from Europe across the Atlantic Ocean.

Remember the Atlantic Ocean is that ocean that lies between Europe and the Americas.

So they began by travelling westward across the Atlantic Ocean.

You can see here the name of some of the ships: the Hope, the Liefde.

Not all of these ships would arrive in Japan with William Adams. We're going to be looking very carefully now at their journey.

William Adams' journey took him west across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas first.

So he began by travelling westward in the same way that John Cabot had done about a hundred years before.

But this time he that the Americas were there, as they had been discovered.

So he made this journey westward across the Atlantic Ocean towards the Americas.

The Americas, 'member, are the continents of North and South America.

If you look carefully at the map of the world here, to the west of Europe, we can see the Atlantic Ocean and then the Americas.

This is where William Adams first arrived.

So he travelled from here.

This is the modern-day United Kingdom here.

William Adams sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.

True or false? And why? Pause the video now.

Off you go.

Fantastic job, team.

This is true.

He sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean to get to the Americas.

This is where he, the other sailors with him, and the other ships first stopped.

For our practise task now, what I'd like you to do for me is add the labels below to the correct places on the map.

You could draw William Adams' ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Think carefully about what this ship would've looked like, and add an arrow showing his direction of travel from Europe.

We have the labels here, Atlantic Ocean and the Americas.

Don't forget to draw William Adams' ship and an arrow to show the westward direction that he would've travelled in.

Pause the video.

Off you go.

Fantastic job, team.

So on the map, I'm hoping that you've managed to draw something that looked like this.

Can you see I've drawn a ship in the style of the ship that William Adams would have been sailing? I've drawn an arrow to show the direction that it was moving in.

I've added on my label of the Atlantic Ocean, that ocean between the continents of Europe and the Americas.

And I've added a label for the continents of the Americas, the North and South American continent.

Check now, make sure you've added your labels correctly, and that you've added your arrow correctly too to show the correct direction of his route.

Off you go.

So we've looked at where William Adams explored.

We've considered the fact that he was the first Englishman to visit Japan.

We've also considered the first part of his journey, the fact that he crossed the Atlantic Ocean and went to the continents of the Americas.

Now we're going to look at what happened on William Adams' journey, as it wasn't a very straightforward voyage.

So on the crossing of the Atlantic, the sailors ran out of supplies.

So they ran out of things to eat and water to drink, and they had to stop to find food.

Many of the crew got very sick because they were not eating enough fruit and vegetables.

Keeping fresh fruits and vegetables for such long journeys was obviously very difficult.

The sailors may get illnesses such as scurvy.

So they had to stop to try and find food.

If you don't eat enough fruit, you won't have enough vitamins to stay fit and healthy, and your body can become very unwell.

And this is what happened to many of the sailors.

They became unwell.

Remember, the sailors were in large wooden sail vessels.

These journeys would've taken weeks and months at a time.

So why did so many sailors fall sick on the journey across the Atlantic? Choose two answers: they did not have enough supplies, they missed their families and were homesick, they did not eat enough fruit and vegetables.

Select the two correct answers now.

Off you go.

Great.

The two key answers here that are correct are because they did not have enough supplies to last them for this long journey, and they did not eat enough fruit and vegetables.

And if you don't eat enough fruit and vegetables, you don't get the vitamins that your body needs to stay fit and healthy.

They may have missed their families who were homesick, but this did not cause them to fall sick and unwell on this journey.

So the ships finally arrived in the south of the Americas in 1599.

Only two of them continued the journey across another ocean to Asia.

Remember, they were on their way to Japan.

Japan is a country in the continent of Asia.

So they've stopped off in the south of the Americas by 1599.

And we have an illustration here of the five ships.

I'm going to show you now the two that continued.

This ship, this ship, and this ship did not continue on.

The Hope and the Liefde, these two ships that don't have crosses next to them, did continue the journey.

And William Adams was on one of these ships.

They went onwards from the south of the Americas towards Asia.

And we're going to look at that part of the journey now.

So after sailing around the Americas, the two ships travelled across the Pacific Ocean.

Let's map out now the journey that William Adams and the two remaining ships, the Hope and the Liefde, took.

So this here shows the remainder of the journey.

They went across from Europe, across the Atlantic Ocean to the south of the Americas, and then they went round the tip of the south of the Americas and up across the Pacific Ocean, across towards the continent of Asia.

This really was a monumentally huge journey.

They travelled through the Atlantic Ocean, around the Cape of the Americas, and then across the Pacific Ocean towards Asia.

Can you match the ocean to the correct label? We have two oceans here, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

The ocean William Adams travelled through first, the ocean William Adams travelled through second.

What was the order of the oceans through which he travelled? Match them now.

Off you go.

Great job.

So the Pacific Ocean was the ocean that he travelled through second.

Once he'd reached the south of the Americas, he travelled through the Pacific Ocean, remember, to go to Asia.

Remember that the Pacific Ocean is the ocean that lies between the Americas and Asia.

The Atlantic Ocean was the ocean that he travelled through first.

This is where many of the sailors on this journey fell unwell because they were running low on supplies and didn't have enough fruit and vegetables.

This, remember, the Atlantic Ocean is the ocean between the continents of Europe and the Americas.

So first, travelled through the Atlantic Ocean and then the Pacific Ocean on this monumentally long voyage to get to Japan, that country in the continent of Asia.

During the journey across the Pacific Ocean, there was a huge storm called a typhoon.

Can you say that for me? Typhoon.

At certain times during the year, the Pacific Ocean will often have various typhoons.

And these are massive storms that can be very dangerous to ships and to the sailors that are sailing across them.

Here we have an illustration of a storm in the ocean.

We can imagine what it would've been like being on one of the two ships travelling through the Pacific at this time.

One of the ships sank in the storm.

The ship, the Hope, unfortunately sank.

William Adams' ship, Liefde, survived and they bravely continued their dangerous journey across the Pacific towards the continent of Asia.

We hear how the illustration of the five ships showing the Liefde continuing on.

So we left in the Americas three of the ships.

And then the Hope unfortunately sank in the Pacific Ocean due to these huge storms called typhoons.

But the Liefde continued on its journey with William Adams piloting it.

After two years, William Adams' ship made it to Asia and finally landed in Japan in April, 1600.

Wow.

The journey of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean around the Americas and then across the Pacific to Asia took him about two years.

What an incredibly long journey.

You can trace along the journey that the ships took now.

And they finally arrived in this country here in Asia, Japan.

So how many ships from William Adams' group made it to Japan? Five, three or one? Great, I could see loads of you pointing there at the answer, and it is indeed one.

The Liefde was the only ship from the group of five that had left from Europe that arrived.

Remember, three were either lost or left behind in the Americas.

And sadly, the Hope was lost in a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean.

So William Adams never returned to England.

He lived the rest of his life in Japan.

Remember, he was the first Englishman to visit Japan where he worked with local people building and sailing ships like those the Europeans used.

In fact, he even became an advisor to the Japanese shogun at the time, someone who was in charge, so he was quite an important figure.

He was one of the only people to have survived the journey to Japan.

Remember this journey took him two years.

We can see here an illustration of William Adams working in Japan.

True or false, William Adams returned to Britain after he reached Japan? This is false.

He chose to stay in Japan.

In fact, he was actually kept there and not allowed to leave for a while, but then he chose to stay helping the Japanese build and sail ships and advising the shogun.

So what I'd like us to do now for our practise task is to put these events in William Adams' journey in order by writing the numbers one to five.

The first one, the earliest chronologically in time order has been done for you.

So we need to read through these events, and then put them in the correct time order.

Number one, five ships sailed across the Atlantic Ocean.

That was the first event.

The other events are out of order.

I'll read them, but then you need to label them correctly.

One ship was lost in a big storm.

The ships arrived in South America.

Two ships sailed into the Pacific Ocean.

William Adams' ship reached Asia after two years.

Pause the video now, write the numbers one to five, and put these events in the correct time order.

Off you go.

Fantastic job, team.

You've clearly been paying a lot of attention and you really now know the story, the fantastic story of William Adams' journey from Europe all the way to Japan.

So event number one, five ships sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, yes.

Event number two, the ships arrived in South America.

Yes, they did.

There, remember, three of the ships did not continue on.

There were just two ships that continued on.

These two ships, the Hope and the Liefde, sailed into the Pacific Ocean, which is that ocean between the Americas and the continent of Asia.

There one of the ships, the Hope was lost in a big storm, a typhoon in the Pacific Ocean.

And finally, after two years, the Liefde William Adams' ship, reached Asia.

That was event number five.

Did your answers look like this? Check them now.

Make sure you've got these in the correct chronological order.

Off you go.

Wow.

I loved learning about William Adams' journey to Japan.

William Adams was an English seafarer, pilot and navigator, and the first English person to travel to Japan.

William Adams was on one of five ships that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

Two of these ships, including Adams' ship, continued the journey across the Pacific Ocean towards the continent of Asia where Japan is.

After a huge storm called a typhoon sunk one of the ships, only Adams' ship, Liefde, remained.

William Adams landed in Japan in 1600 after a two-year long epic journey.

And he stayed in Japan for the rest of his life helping the Japanese build ships in the style of the Europeans and advising the shogun.

What an incredible life.

Keep up the great history, and I'll see you again soon.