Challenges at home and abroad Flashcards
1
Q
How could a Monarch raise money?
A
- rents and income frothier own lands
- taxes from trade
- subsidies
- profits of justice
- loans
2
Q
Why did the government not have a lot of money?
A
- fought war
- Crown lands were sold off
3
Q
How much money was England I debt in 1558?
A
£300,000
4
Q
Why did Mary Queen of Scots have a stronger claim to the throne?
A
legitimate the throne
5
Q
What was the Auld Alliance?
A
alliance between Scotland and France against England
6
Q
Who held the French Port of Calais since 1347?
A
England- French military base was in France
important trading post
7
Q
Why did England return Calais to France?
A
Treaty of Cateau-Calais
8
Q
What was an important aim of Elizabeth’s foreign policy?
A
regaining Calais
9
Q
Define Protestant
A
Another form of Christianity
- did not accept the Pope as their religious leader
- did not agree how the clergy were not allowed to marry
-Bible being in Latin
