foreign policy 1571 - 1588: overseas trade and plans for colonisation
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- Foreign policy ('71 - '88) Overseas trade & colonisa-tion
- The main changes were twofold:
- 1st- the main markets for wool moved from southern to northern Netherlands.
- And there was an inc in trade w/ the Ottoman Empire.
- David Palliser- England remained 'relatively backward' in it's exploitation of trading opportunities in Liz's reign.
- It was important later on they were extending trade to mainland North America, & an attempt to form a colony in Virginia.
- Humphrey Gilbert suggested colonising North America, supported by Richard Hakluyt. Presented this t the Queen through his half brother Walter Raleigh
- Raleigh had lots of support including Walsingham. In 1585 he received the Queen a patent to colonise Virginia
- 2 expeditions sailed for Virginia, although made land on Roanoke island, in what became North Carolina.
- Unfortunately for Raleigh's investors, and those who died, the attempts at colonisation proved disasterous
- This was because of poor organisation, ill luck & reluctance by the Queen to give the matter priority when she was faced w/ war w/ Spain.
- Permanent English colonisation of Virginia had to wait until James I.
- The main changes were twofold:
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