ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Bishops' Wars

Okay, so imagine you have two groups of people - let's call them Group A and Group B. Now, sometimes Group A and Group B disagree about things. One day, Group A and Group B started to disagree about a lot of important stuff, like who should have power and control over the country they live in.

Now, both groups had leaders called bishops. Bishops are like the bosses of certain areas. But the problem was that the leaders of Group A and Group B didn't get along. They each wanted more power and control than the other.

Because they couldn't agree on who should have more power, the leaders of Group A and Group B decided to have wars. These wars were called the Bishops' Wars.

In these wars, the people from Group A fought against the people from Group B. They had big battles and fought each other using weapons like swords and guns.

Now, these wars happened in a country called Scotland. In Scotland, there was a king who was in charge, but he lived in a different country called England. The king of England was also the king of Scotland, but the people in Scotland didn't always like the king's decisions.

During the Bishops' Wars, the king of England wanted the bishops from Group A to have more power. But the people in Scotland, who were mostly from Group B, didn't agree with the king. They wanted their bishops to have more power instead.

So, the people from Scotland fought against the king of England and his supporters in Group A. They fought hard and had many battles. But in the end, the people of Scotland were able to defeat the king and his supporters.

After the Bishops' Wars, the people of Scotland were able to have more say in who had power and control over their country. They didn't have to listen to the king of England as much and could make their own decisions.

So, the Bishops' Wars were a very important time in history when two groups of people fought against each other to decide who should have power and control over Scotland. The people of Scotland won and were able to have more control over their own country.