History GCSE
Elizabethan foreign policy
What Elizabethan foreign policy means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Elizabethan foreign policy
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The conduct of England's affairs abroad, in which privateering held strategic importance and Drake acted under Elizabeth I's commission.
Topics that use Elizabethan foreign policy
- Option B4: Key topic 2: Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569–88 - 3 Outbreak of war with Spain, 1585–88 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anglo-Spanish relations
- Causes of war
- Governor-General
- Military intervention
- Naval warfare and privateering
- Strategic delay and logistics
- Treaty of Nonsuch
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