CROMWELL
period
1600
1642 CIVIL WAR
clash between
knights
followers of the king
Anglican aristocrats
round heads
on the side of parliament
Puritan bourgeois
CROMWELL
Puritan commander
reorganize a strong army of parliament
1645
defeats the knights of Carlo I
1649
King Carlo I beheaded
monarchy abolished
the Anglican church suppressed
the republic proclaimed
after the civil war
Cromwell persecutes
political-religious groups such as levelers, diggers and quakers
because he feared that they would start new conflicts
they wanted very advanced reforms
took the title "Lord protector"
President
dissolved parliament
impose la dittatura
1653-1658
victories
riots of Irish Catholics
subdued Scotland
on the Netherlands for maritime trade
expansion on the sea