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Her reign was a time of art, music and literature with the talents of Nicholas Hilliard, John Dowland and William Shakespeare flourishing at this time. It is often known as "the Golden Age of English history".
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Her long reign created stability. When she died, James VI of Scotland, the son of her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, inherited the throne peacefully.
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Her long reign created stability. When she died, James VI of Scotland, the son of her cousin Mary Queen of Scots, inherited the throne peacefully.
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By the end of her reign, England was a world power. Pope Sixtus V could not understand it: "She is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by all".
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During her reign, the first colony of the British Empire was set up - Virginia in North America.
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Her reign was a time of art, music and literature. The reign of Elizabeth I is sometimes called "the Golden Age of English history".
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She was popular. In 1588 the troops at Tilbury shouted "Gloriana!", which means 'glorious woman', and in 1590, the poet Edmund Spenser made 'Gloriana' the heroine of his poem The Faerie Queene.
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