Foreign policy and finance
What Foreign policy and finance means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The failed Spanish Match and disastrous Mansfield expedition left an active, expensive conflict within the Thirty Years' War, straining relations with Spain and forcing reliance on Parliament for war funding.
Costly wars and strained relations with France and Scotland necessitated the debasement of the coinage and the sale of monastic lands, weakening the Crown's financial independence.
Topics that use Foreign policy and finance
- 2D Religious conflict and the Church in England, c1529– c1570 – Change and reaction, 1536–1547 (AQA A-Level)
- 2E The English Revolution, 1625–1660 – The emergence of conflict and the end of consensus, 1625–1629 (AQA A-Level)
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