“The Virgin Queen of England” Queen Elizabeth I was a brave and noble Queen of England‚ who endured wars and hardships better than some British Kings. She grew up with a constantly changing and quarreling family filled with violence‚ scandal and death and still managed to be both intelligent and competent. She was able to unite a torn and divided country and simultaneously fight off other nations over religious beliefs. She kept a level head through risky relationships and bad parings and did get
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her foreign policy in each country for example loosing at war‚ loosing money on expeditions and war being ended with a peace treaty instead Judgement – even though there was some success in Elizabeth’s foreign policy‚ such as defeating the Spanish armada‚ however this was out balanced by many failures Elizabeth’s foreign policy entailed‚ such as one of her main aims for Spain to have no control in the Netherlands. Even though she did have some success in her foreign policy‚ this was still highly expensive
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In April 1588 a massive invasion fleet or Armada sailed from the port of Lisbon. It was made up of 130 ships fitted with 2‚500 guns. They carried 30‚000 soldiers and sailors. And with the leaders Queen Elizabeth 1st for the English and King Phillip 2nd. And the lord high admirals Sir Francis Drake for England and Duke of Meding Sidonia. The armada started for many reasons like the piracy‚ death of Mary Queen of Scots‚ religion‚ refusal of marriage‚ Dutch revolt and the French civil war. But even
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Protestant to Catholic. English sailors were stealing treasure from Spanish ships and were helping the Dutch fight the Spanish. Phillip thought he had a claim to the throne and was supported by the Pope. Prince Phillip was optimistic about his Armada attack on England. He had over one hundred and thirty ships‚ he owned more land than the Roman Empire‚ his army was modern and well equipped and he was doing God’s work. The Spanish fleet set out with 22 warships of the Spanish Royal Navy and
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Spanish Empire The Spanish had little respect for Indian culture. As soon as their boots hit the ground‚ they set about subverting and destroying every aspect of the Indian way of life. The Aztecs attempted to befriend the Spanish explorers‚ but when Hernan Cortez heard his capitol of Vera Cruz had been plundered‚ he capture and killed their leader Montezuma II. The Incas didn’t fare any better. Francisco Pizarro‚ driven mad with greed‚ kidnapped the Incan king‚ Atahualpa and forced his people to
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Elizabeth’s Golden Age Elizabeth was Queen of England from 1558-1603. During that time England was a strong country and she was a successful queen. Many people thought Elizabeth would not last long without a powerful husband but they were proved wrong. In fact Elizabeth was very clever in not choosing a husband. She didn’t choose a husband because she didn’t want anybody taking over her throne. There were four men that she could have married but said no to. The first man was Philip of Spain. Philip
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The first way the she did that was by knighting a explorer from Devonshire England after he had been sent away to explore South America by Queen Elizabeth‚ he had also helped her defeat Spanish Armada. Another explorer that Queen Elizabeth had influenced was a man named Martin Frobisher. He was on a journey and he wanted to redeem himself to Elizabeth by finding the Northwest passage. One last man that was influenced by Elisabeth was William Shakespeare
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Queen Elizabeth and Religion A. Plan of Investigation Thesis: Due to Queen Elizabeth ’s religion there were many conflicts involved during her reign in England I plan on doing this research by looking at people ’s reactions during Queen Elizabeth ’s reign when she reopens the Church of England. I plan on doing this by looking at primary resources maybe like protests that happened outside of Queen Elizabeth ’s house or letters people were sending to each other about how they felt about his certain
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Introduction 1. To show how the British Navy built our modern global system. Chpt. 1 - "Incident at San Juan de Ulloa" 1. Slavery was the largest form of commerce in the sixteenth century. 2. The flota is a treasure fleet with heavily armed galleons that were coming from Seville‚ Spain. Fireships are empty ships set on fire and sailed into the enemy‚ a kamikaze-like act‚ in hopes to set their ships on fire as well. Chpt. 2 - “Beginnings”
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her and their religions and primary languages were different. Even though the rejection of his proposal was quite harsh‚ tension between them increased when she defeated the Spanish Armada. The Spanish Armada was fleet of solders led by Philip II to attack England in 1588. When Queen Elizabeth beat the Spanish Armada‚ she became very popular to her people. Now that tension was at its highest between King Philip and Queen Elizabeth‚ King Philip most likely wanted Queen Elizabeth dead for
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