Foreign Affairs

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
This nation wants to control territories that belonged to the Habsburgs and also wants the European supremacy. One important victory of Philip II was the Battle of Saint Quintin. After the Treaty of Cateau Cambrésis the conflict was finally solved.
It was a powerful empire and a prominent major power of this period.
It supposed a menace to the Spanish possessions in the Mediterranean. One important victory of Philip II was the Battle of Lepanto.
This region adopted the Calvinist religion, also known as Puritanism.
Philip II repressed these religious ideas in 1566, but the northern provinces will resist in a long struggle that lasted more than 80 years and three kingdoms.
This nation saw the Spanish control of the Atlantic as a menace. They attacked the Spanis ships and helped the Puritans in The Netherlands. Philip II prepared the invasion of this territory with the Spanish Armada.