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Why did war break out between England and Spain in 1585? - Coggle Diagram
Why did war break out between England and Spain in 1585?
religious factors
Philip was a devoted catholic and believe he should spread catholicism throughout Europe, where Elizabeth wanted to make England a protestant country.
Elizabeth's religious settlement was in 1559. this was way before war broke out.
The Pope's excommunication of Elizabeth in 1570 was an instruction for catholic's like Philip to take action.
war broke out long after this so they must have been other reasons.
after catholics were persecuted after the revolt of the northern earls and the ridolfi plot Philip was upset.
political factors
England was an up and coming power and if Philip wanted Spain to remain the strong he had to be tough on Elizabeth.
Philip indirectly supported a number of plots against Elizabeth.
Parliament and the privy council advised Elizabeth to attack spain.
The Netherlands
elizabeth hired a mercenary army and lent money to support dutch rebels even though Philip didn't want to give them freedom
the war against the rebels nearly made spain bankrupt and this was due to elizabeth's indirect support to the rebels
commercial factors
elizabeth indirectly supported lots of highly damaging attacks on spanish shipping
Francis Drake was funded by Elizabeth
this wasn't a direct attack on from the english.
after the spanish destroyed the city of Antwerp(1576), england could no longer sell goods their. this heavily damaged the english economy
this factor existed long before war broke out in 1585