HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Question
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the English Civil War occurred.
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Oliver Cromwell emerged as the new military leader.
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Parliament was dissolved.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -1625-1649) Charles I was born in Fife on 19 November 1600, the second son of James VI of Scotland (from 1603 also James I of England) and Anne of Denmark. He became heir to the throne on the death of his brother, Prince Henry, in 1612.
Detailed explanation-2: -Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles’s reign saw the rise of colonisation and trade in India, the East Indies and America (the British captured New York from the Dutch in 1664), and the Passage of Navigation Acts that secured Britain’s future as a sea power. He founded the Royal Society in 1660.
Detailed explanation-4: -The crisis of 1629-60 originated in Charles I’s belief that by the royal prerogative he could govern without the advice and consent of Parliament.