why didn't england make stronger attempts to colonize the new workd before th elate sixteenth to early seventeenth century?

England did not make stronger attempts to colonize the new world before the late sixteenth to the early seventeenth century because English attention was turned to internal struggles and the encroaching Catholic menace to Scotland and Ireland.

Explanation:

The rapidly disseminating ideals of Protestantism and the degradation of Catholicism that was happening during the late sixteenth and the early twentieth century in England was of greater concern to the royal family and the Church than any other external issues. The step taken by Mary II and her husband, the Scottish prince William of Orange, of taking over the throne and giving more powers to the parliament was also one move of concern.