Country At Start

Question 0

The Kingdom

Answer 0

2.5 million population in 1500
90% agrarian
Only two universities
Law maintained by Justices of Peaces

Question 1

Henry VII

Answer 1

Generally avoided war and saved money
Used bonds and recognizances
Survived white rose party rebellion

Question 2

Renaissance King

Answer 2

Dictate policy
Maintain law and order
Be a good servant to the Church
Be involved in continental wars
Powerful court at home

Question 3

Henry VIII’s first actions

Answer 3

Empson and Dudley (managed binds and recognizances) arrested in 1509
Executed despite weak evidence
Aggressive foreign policy supported by Howard and Catherine

Question 4

Catholicism in every day life

Answer 4

Main part of community
Sven sacraments
Donations to the Church

Question 5

Problems in the Church

Answer 5

Uneducated priests
Clerical abuses
Standards of monasteries
Benefit of clergy

Question 6

Reformation in Europe

Answer 6

95 Thesis in Wittenberg in 1517 - excommunicated in 1520
Diet of Worms in 1521
Defence of 7 sacraments in 1521
Tyndale wrote Obedience of Christian Man in 1528
Robert Barnes and others from Cambridge discussed Lutheranism

Question 7

Opposition to Catholic Church in England

Answer 7

Humanists - Colet and More

Lollards based on 14th Century Wyclif