Economic

Question 1

Low spending power (2)

Answer 1

Food and drink accounted for 80% of expenditure from poor
Cost of living rose 40% but wages only 20%

Question 2

Food Riots when + what (2++)

Answer 2

1586 in Ipswich, Gloucestershire + Hampshire
1596-97 in Somerset, Kent + Sussex

Question 3

Anti enclosure riots when and what

Answer 3

Oxford in 1596

Question 4

How much land enclosed (2)

Answer 4

9% by end of reign
70% in some areas

Question 5

Those in absolute Poverty (2(

Answer 5

10% countryside
20% in towns

Question 6

Wealth increase (2)

Answer 6

Lawyers and merchants gained wealth through purchasing land
Increased prosperity on unprecedented scale

Question 7

Poor harvests

Answer 7

9/44 were considered poor
1594-97 = consecutive

Question 8

Health (3)

Answer 8

1557-79 = epidemic disease = reduced pop. By 9%
1563 = 1/4 pop. Died of plague outbreak
Life expectancy = 35

Question 9

Geographical inequality (2+)

Answer 9

Pop. Of London grew 120,000 in 1550 to 200,000 by 1600
South east = most prosperous part of country + north west least

Question 10

Inequalities in classes (3+)

Answer 10

50% families considered labouring poor = received 20% national income
14% national income belonged to 1.2% families
23% of pop. Owned 55% of taxable wealth

Question 11

Series of good harvests

Answer 11

1587 - 1593

Question 12

Subsistence problems (3)

Answer 12

1596 and 1597
North = starvation
Corporation of Newcastle = buried 25 homeless people = starved

Question 13

Urban settlement developments

Answer 13

Manchester and Plymouth

Question 14

Positives of agriculture (3)

Answer 14

Up and down husbandry:
Increased crop yield
More animals kept = more food over winter