"I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood". The Elizabethan era was the bond between the Renaissance and the modern eras. It is not coincidental that when you compare these two eras …showed first 75 words of 2016 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2016 total…ruler is naturally destined to rule. Queen Elizabeth I had these characteristics and shares them with some of the past and present's most celebrated and revered leaders. Why this is important because leadership, in general, is an important link between the past and modernization and through these characteristics of what it takes to be a ruler, we can see that Queen Elizabeth truly did a great job preserving them from older generations to new ones.