Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...real cause for the Spanish Armada was the bitter hatred that existed between the two great religious sects, the Protestants and Catholics. The age, too, was one in which revolutions and great fanatic movements were not only frequent but popular. But the preparations received their final stimulus from the execution of Mary, Queen of Scotts. Before her death she had bequeathed her right to the English crown to Philip II., now king of Spain. The assistance which the revolted Netherlands had received from the English still further roused the Spaniards against them...