Philip II Foreign Policy successes
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- Created on: 14-05-19 14:14
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- Philip II foreign policy
- Ottomans
- 1563- decisive victory against Turks
- Battle of Lepanto 1571 BIGGEST victory and Naval battle
- Blocked Ottoman path to expand into the Western Med.
- Peace made in 1578
- France
- Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis 1559
- Anxious about Protestants in France
- Treaty of Joinville 1584- Joined French Catholic League against Henry of Navarre
- War w/ France as Philip doesn't remove troops from France after H of Navarre converts to Cath.
- Edict of Nantes- equal worship for Prot. and Caths in France
- Treaty of Vervins 1598-peace between France and Spain
- Portugal
- 1581- Becomes King of Portugal
- Better access to attacks on England
- Removed potential for Portuguese invasion
- Helped improve Convoy System as Azores provided a good point for NW shipping
- Buenos Aires 1580- secured more South American territories
- England
- Attempts to fulfil Catholic Orthodoxy
- New World
- Improved Admin- such as Council of Indies, able viceroys (such as Toledo)
- Improved mines, laws, money. Progress in Ship Building
- 1580s- Increased customs duties payments and sales
- Ottomans
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