Name: England in the Age of Exploration
Uploaded: 2017-10-19T18:25:43.000Z
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- [Instructor] I think
there's a strong argument

Advanced passive voice

of all time, but when you look back to the

Age of Exploration, it
becomes clear that England

was actually pretty late
to the imperial game.

England, by contrast, didn't actually have

that far behind, but this
is more than 100 years

later than Spain's
first colonial ventures.

Why were they so late
in the colonial game?

That's what I'd like to
take a closer look at

in England led that nation
to start New World colonies.

Now I think the biggest reason why England

And the first of these
was ongoing conflict

between Catholics and
Protestants in England.

I don't have time to
do justice to it here,

but suffice it to say
that the trouble started

and Henry VIII broke away
from the Catholic Church

the Church of England, also
known as the Anglican Church.

and Mary, who was a
Catholic, and Mary occupied

but Elizabeth managed to
wrest it away from her

as Elizabeth I, England
became a Protestant nation.

So it's hard to be
involved in world affairs

when you've got kind of
a crisis of succession

going on, so one factor
here is religious conflict.

colonial problems closer
to home in Ireland.

England is trying to, and will succeed at,

what's good for them and in
the opinion of the English,

that Spain sponsored Columbus, they still

the most famous of them here is this man,

Sir Francis Drake, and
really, privateers are

and do all the work of setting up housing

gold on a ship and then
use your awesome navy,

'cause England is growing
a very awesome navy,

So England doesn't have a strong incentive

just steal it from the
ships along the way.

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England in the Age of Exploration

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