ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

PHILIP II (SPAIN)

• He developed a expansion foreign policy that go attempt to control over the northern Netherlands.
• He decided conquer England and bring an end to Elizabeth and her Protestant government.
• His plan worked and their formation was broken, because Spanish ship were easy targets and he won
• There was a revolt in 1591 that the Aragon were against his rule.
• His military campaigns created severe financial problems and by 1596 his country was bankrupt.

ELIZABETH I

• She created a royal power which built a new style of regal lordship in England.
• With the new Church she ensured measure of relative toleration allowing people to behave as they wished.
• She made a decision to adopt Protestantism that earned her condemnation from the pope.
• Her rule for years often was referred as the The Elizabethan age.
• Toward the end of her reign problems begin to grow with consistently poor harvests and high inflation.

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