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What are the majr accomplishments of Queen Elizabeth 1st? and things that are really important about her? please help!

2007-03-19 01:42:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

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I wrote a paper on this for uni history 101! Here are the main ones (in my opinion)
-she inherited a broke kingdom, torn apart by the introduction of anglicanism (introduced by her father), and created one of the strongest countries in the worlds
-she appeased the catholics and anglicans by introducing new legeslation
-she used her suitors (she was never married) in order to create various alliances with several countries
-the defeat of the spanish armada (which people thought was impossible)
-she created various laws to help the poor, including the "poor laws", which are the predeccessor to the modern day welfare system
-she managed to eliminate the debt in 1573
-under her, the works of shakespeare, marlow and others were allowed to flourish because she encouraged, and was a lover of the arts (this didn't happen under her father!)

Hope that helped!

PS If you need a good book, I really liked Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins.

2007-03-19 01:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by bpbjess 5 · 0 0

Queen Elizabeth II is promptly descended from King James I, who replace into Queen Elizabeth I's first cousin two times bumped off. subsequently, if i'm counting the generations properly, Elizabeth II is a popular cousin fourteen circumstances bumped off of Elizabeth I.

2016-10-19 01:46:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, Queen of France (in name only), and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She is sometimes referred to as The Virgin Queen (as she never married), Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, and was immortalized by Edmund Spenser as the Faerie Queene. Elizabeth I was the sixth and final monarch of the Tudor dynasty (the other Tudor monarchs having been her grandfather Henry VII, her father Henry VIII, her half-brother Edward VI, her cousin Jane (also known as the 9 days queen), and her half-sister Mary I). She reigned for 45 years, during a period marked by increases in English power and influence worldwide, as well as great religious turmoil within England.

Elizabeth's reign is referred to as the Elizabethan era or the Golden Age of Elizabeth. Playwrights William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson all flourished during this era; Francis Drake became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe; Francis Bacon laid out his philosophical and political views; and English colonisation of North America took place under Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Elizabeth was an even-tempered and decisive ruler. Her favourite motto was video et taceo ("I see and keep silent").[1] This last quality, viewed with impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her father Henry VIII, she was a writer and poet. She granted Royal Charters to several famous organisations, including Trinity College, Dublin (its official name is the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Elizabeth near Dublin) in 1592 and the British East India Company (1600).

In her nearly forty-five years as monarch, she created only nine peerage dignities, one earldom and seven baronies in the Peerage of England, and one barony in the Peerage of Ireland. She also reduced the number of Privy Counsellors from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.

The Commonwealth of Virginia, one of the 13 colonies that became the United States of America, was named for Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen", as was the Ulster Plantation town of Virginia, County Cavan, Ireland.

2007-03-19 01:51:39 · answer #3 · answered by Vlado 4 · 0 0

She colonized Africa.

2007-03-19 01:51:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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