1. Exploration and discovery
Raleigh and Virginia
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Elizabeth’s accession
The problem of the
poor
The Religious Settlement
Education and leisure
Mary Queen
of Scots
Plots and revolts
at home
The Armada
War with Spain
Relations with Spain

2. Mary Queen of Scots
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Government in 1558
Society in 1558
The Puritan
challenge
Elizabeth’s legitimacy
Enforcing the settlement
Gender and marriage
Financial
weaknesses
Religious settlement
Religious divisions
The threat from France

3. The Armada
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The Revolt of the Northern Earls, 1569
The Ridolfi plot
Outbreak of war with Spain
The Throckmorton plot
The Netherlands
The Babington plot
Execution of Mary Queen of Scots
Commercial rivalry/Drake/privateers
Elizabeth’s foreign policy aims
Walsingham’s use of spies