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Period: 1485 to
The Tudors
After the War of Roses Until Elizabeth I -
Period: 1491 to 1547
Henry VIII
Henry Tudor's son (Henry VII)
Renaissance man
6 wifes -
Period: 1547 to 1553
Edward VI
Bashes the Pope
Protestant like his father-> "My device for the succession"
Son of Jane Seymour -
1550
Elizabethan Era
Science: Sir Francis Bacon: Novum Orgnum-> the new method
Empiricists + concrete-> feet on the ground Navigation: Sir Francis Drake: 1st English man to go around the globe Empire: Sir Walter Raleigh: Virginia English: Spenser, Johnson, Marlowe
Marlowe: gay and atheist, died in a knife fight
The Bard -
Period: 1553 to 1558
Bloody Mary
Catholic Queen-> burnt 300 people at the stake
Daughter of Catherine of Aragon
Married Philip of Spain -
Period: 1558 to
Elizabeth I
Virgin Queen
"I have no desire to make windows into the men's souls"
Spanish Armada-> "heart and stomach of th king, and a king of England too" -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
Born the same year Michelangelo died: end of the Italian Renaissance and blossoming of the British one -
1577
British Circumnavigation of the Globe
50 years after Portugal
Sir Francis Drake-> Navigaion Moleyneux: globes were also propaganda-> where the Brits went and conquered