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FOREIGN POLICY - Coggle Diagram
FOREIGN POLICY
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CONCLUSIONS
Despite the small yet encouraging victories in Scotland and France at the beginning of Henry’s reign that quenched part of HVIII's thirst for conquest, the financial burden of war caught up with the comparatively lowly England, forcing Henry to concede to Wolsey’s more conservative and economically sustainable policies of peace and diplomacy, appeasing the king by placing England at the centre of European civility.
Taking the breakdown of European peace as an opportunity to resume his imperial conquest, HVIII ended on the wrong side of European power, the weaker part of an Anglo-French alliance that excluded him from the top table and impeded his progress to divorce
Instability caused by ambitious foreign policy undermined HVII's hard work to raise Crown funds and establish civility abroad