HIST1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Guerrilla Warfare, Plano Real, Utopia
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Now: english: from pirates to settlers and planters. Huge population increase in british north american colonies from 1650- Henry vii of tudor won war of roses and was looking to stabilize his new conquests (unified england) by setting up henry viii. Henry viii (england) marries catherine of aragon (spain) (daughter of ferdinand and isabella) and consolidate the state - england was less prosperous than. Catherine and henry have a daughter not a son which henry is pissed about. Henry asks pope to annul the marriage so he can marry again and have a son - Pope says no (to keep states together/england prosperous) So henry ignores pope and just sets aside catherine and marries again ignorance of the pope is part of what led to the split of protestants/catholics. But henry"s son dies young so mary i (daughter of catherine of aragon gets inheritance) Mary i marries philip ii of spain and they try to re-catholicize england and expel.
