Year 8
Year 8
Elizabeth I and Spain: Why were they rivals?
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- In this lesson, we will learn about the tensions between Elizabeth I's England and Philip II's Spain and how these tensions helped to push the Elizabethans to expand their horizons.
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5 Questions
Q1.
What religion was Philip II of Spain?
Protestant
Q2.
Which of these was NOT a reason for the tensions between England and Spain?
Both monarchs supporting plots against the other
Philip being rejected as a husband by Elizabeth I
Religious differences
Q3.
The Pope allowed Spain to take and control any areas of the 'New World' if...?
The land was uninhabited
The people weren't running their government in a Spanish style
They were in America
Q4.
The English Privateers did what in the Spanish Empire...?
Explored the areas making maps
Tried to conquer their own areas of the empire
Worked with the local people to overthrow the Spanish
Q5.
Richard Hackluyt the Elizabethan writer said of the Spanish Empire...?
That he would as part of his travel writing quite like to visit.
That it was too large and the treatment of enslaved peoples was cruel.