Queen Elizabeth's Everlasting Effects

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The Virgin Queen Elizabeth’s Everlasting Effects Elizabeth Tudor, or better known as Queen Elizabeth the First or The Virgin Queen, helped shape and change the land of England. Her reign was monumental which helped establish and expand the land overseas. Not only did she work with foreign lands to improve her own, she helped increase trading, which then, in turn, made England prosper. She made such an impact her monarchy was referred to as the “Elizabethan Era” and this age truly allowed for the arts to amplify. In addition to the arts taking off, Elizabeth fought to obtain religious tolerance that her sister had so brutally demolished and worked hard to help reshape a distressed England. Queen Elizabeth was pursued often by suitors and habitually …show more content…
She was an instant disappointment to her parents as they expected and hoped for a baby boy to help carry on the family name. Elizabeth tragically lost her mother at the young age of two, due to speculation of adultery, which led to a beheading of her, ordered by King Henry. This instruction from King Henry had a more detailed background; Henry needed a new wife to bear him a son, which was a task Anne could not seem to accomplish. Elizabeth went back and forth between being considered illegitimate or not, along with her half-sister, Mary, making for a less ideal childhood, for the two of them. However, she did get the royalty advantage when it came to education, Elizabeth was given private tutoring and grew to be quite scholarly. She always valued intelligence and truly wanted to embrace life with a deep understanding of everything. Elizabeth’s sister took over the land in 1553, after Lady Jane Grey’s brief reign. “A staunch Roman Catholic, Mary sought to restore her country back to her faith, undoing her father's break from the Pope.” Mary’s plans for ruling were extremely opposite to her father’s. Her actions resulted in demolishing the prosperous country and breaking down the unity amongst the citizens. In 1558 the ruling of Mary ended due to her death in St James Palace in London, Elizabeth took over. She …show more content…
One specific example was the war with France. England was involuntary pushed into a war between France and Spain and came out with less in the end. The country lost Calais as a result, which was their final Continental establishment. With the governing of Elizabeth, she aided in ending this war along “With the assistance of her key advisor, William Cecil…” The Elizabethan Era also brought a great age of exploration, typically led by English merchants. They greatly emphasized trade because they needed to purchase or trade, in order to get Oriental spices to aid in meat curing. “Europeans … wanted to establish a direct sea-route to the Far East so that they could buy directly from China, India, and the East Indies.” If they managed to buy directly, the hefty price markup the Middle Eastern middlemen charged would be avoided and the merchants could save valuable money. The explorers hoped by traveling the Northwest and Northeast Passage, their hopes would be fulfilled. They failed in this mission to find a passageway but managed to find new land. On Sir Walter Ralegh’s trek, he managed to explore new land and tried to establish the colony on Roanoke Island, which is located in present-day North Carolina, on the eastern side of the United States. Elizabeth supported her people and their will to explore lands,

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