Tudor Coursework - Elizabethan foreign policy.

... Tudor Coursework - Elizabethan foreign policy. (a) Identify four events that influenced Anglo-Spanish relations in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Pope created treaty of Tordesillas 1498. Elizabeth I accepted title protector of the Netherlands and sent troops to fight in civil war 1585-86. Drake's "singeing of the king of Spain's beard" at Cadiz in 1587. 2nd Spanish Armada 1588. (b) Explain briefly why France was not a great threat to Elizabethan England. While France did not ultimately turn out to be a great threat to Elizabethan England it certainly had the potential and initial intent to be so. With Henri II described as a colossus straddling England with one foot in Calais and one foot in Scotland. He above all else was the one main threat to Elizabeth I and Elizabethan England. With his death in 1559 the Colossus was no more and the immediate threat from France and was gone. However her army, in Scotland

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