The big pattern
The big pattern

Foreign policy means how a government deals with other states through marriage, alliance, war, diplomacy and trade. For the Tudors, the key relationships were usually with France, Scotland, Burgundy or the Netherlands, and Spain.
Step-by-step lessons on OCR A Level History Tudor Foreign Policy 1485–1603. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a secure grasp of the outline narrative for your breadth and depth periods first, since the source-evaluation and historical-interpretations questions that carry a large share of the marks depend on that contextual knowledge.