Exemplary and a healer. Two words to describe Queen Elizabeth I of England. A reformer and fighter, she restored England back to it’s global power after the terrible reigns of previous monarchs. A proper monarch who fixed the religious dispute, promoting trade and economic boost, and more importantly establishing the image of a female monarch who could make change to improve a country's image. Queen Elizabeth herself did it all and proved what a female can do. Religion, a crucial part of life in the 16th-17th century, In England they were in a religious predicament. King Henry VIII had officially dropped the Roman Catholic faith and ordered for everyone to accept the new Protestant religion. When Elizabeth became monarch, her country lay in separation of churches. The newly formed Church of England a Protestant church and the Roman Catholic Church. Since, most citizens were Catholic, Elizabeth had to portray her Protestants beliefs to the public and hope that her people could accept and convert to the new Church of England. While it took her whole reign, she was able by the time her death was near her people were mainly Protestant and a minority of Catholic (Thomas). Not to be forgotten, Elizabeth had created a Religious Settlement to help with the unstableness in her country. …show more content…
With exploration of the New World, more countries spent money on trying to get ships and explorers to claim land in the New World. Queen Elizabeth was very invested in promoting exploration and claiming of new land in far away worlds (Elizabethan). Approving charters for her explores to claim land in the New World, Elizabeth had made sure she had land. Also, establishing the East India Co. to compete with nearby countries Spain and Portugal in the spice trade in Southeast Asia (Elizabethan). Lastly, Elizabeth had opposed the idea of raising taxes to gain an income for the huge costs of