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Queen Elizabeth I: England's Golden Age

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The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century’s in England were a very hard but important, powerful and time changing era for England, this was because a very strong and powerful monarch took control over England, a monarch that would lead England for many years and overall revolutionize life in England, her name was Queen Elizabeth the 1st and her rule was the “golden age” of England. Queen Elizabeth the 1st became the 8th longest ruling monarch in England with a rule of 44 years not only because she made important changes in England but because she thought about the people before making those decisions and that is why I’ve decided that Queen Elizabeth the 1st was truly a “people’s queen”. Queen Elizabeth the 1st was a people’s queen for tons of reasons, the most important of which in my mind are the following, firstly she converted England’s religion from Roman …show more content…

In the end Queen Elizabeth is and will always be a people's queen because of the time changing decisions she

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