Elizabeth Flashcards

1
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Year Elizabeth died?

A

1603

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2
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Number of weeks parliament met

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140

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3
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Number of times parliament was called?

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13

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4
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Percentage of MPs who debated in people in court?

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500

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5
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Earl of Leicester; Elizabeth’s favourite

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Robert Dudley

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6
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Puritan Spymaster and privy councillor

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Francis Walsingham

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7
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Secretary of state; Elizabeth’s trusted advisor

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William Cecil

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8
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King of Spain

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Phillip II

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9
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Elizabeth’s cousin; successor to the throne

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James I

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10
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Suitor from weak scandanavian protestant country

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Prince Eric

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11
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Earl of Essex

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Robert Devereux

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12
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Elizabeth’s little frog

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Francis, Duke of Anjou

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13
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Dancing privy councillor

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Hatton

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14
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Elizabeth’s abusive uncle

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Thomas Seymour

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15
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Wife of Henry VIII who made Liz go to court

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Catherine Parr

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16
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Mother of Elizabeth

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Anne Boleyn

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17
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Elizabeth’s older sister and former Queen

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Mary I

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18
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Austrian Catholic Successor

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Charles

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19
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Cambridge scholar, tutor to Elizabeth

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Roger Asham

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20
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The system of sponsoring favourites by giving land

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Patronage

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21
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Extended household and social hub for Elizabethan England

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Court

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22
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Small group of advisors; met daily

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Privy council

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23
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When Elizabeth visits houses of the nobility with her court

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Progresses

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24
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When Elizabeth’s image is used to spread a message

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Propaganda

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Elizabeth's power to deny any parliament law
Veto
26
Concept that a monarch was chosen by God
Divine Right
27
Succession name given to issues surrounding Elizabeth's heir and marriage crisis
Succession Crisis
28
Passed twice by Henry VIII to remove Elizabeth
Act of Succession
29
When Henry split with the Catholic Church
Act of Reformation
30
Main good exported by Elizabeth
Woolen Cloth
31
Religious and Economic ally on the continent
Netherlands
32
Elizabeth was locked up here twice in her lifetime
Tower of London
33
Rebellion that took place against Mary in 1554
Wyatt's rebellion
34
English Explorer to circumnavigate the globe
Drake
35
Famous Explorer, discovered virginia and Jamestown
Walter Raleigh
36
Drake's cousin, pioneered the Atlantic Slave trade
John Hawkins
37
Founding Member of the BEIC trade links with far east
John Cabot
38
Explorer who attempted the NW passage and returned with fool's gold
Martin Fobischer
39
Famous Elizabethan Playright, wrote at least 37 plays
William Shakespeare
40
Second most famous Elizabethan Playright, wrote Dr Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
41
Wrote "book of Martyrs"
John Foxe
42
Poet, wrote the "Faerie Queen" in honour of Elizabeth
Edmund Spenser
43
Artist who specialised in the creation of miniatures
Nicholas Hilliard
44
Elizabeth Musician who composed Fantasia
William Byrd
45
Published the book warning against Vagabonds in 1567
Thomas Harmon
46
A social class whose power comes from wealth not nobility
Gentry
47
The act of fencing off common land
Enclosure
48
Destruction of Catholic places of religion
The Dissolution
49
Leisure activity involving animals
Bear Baiting
50
The flourishing during the Elizabethan Period
The Golden Age
51
The strict social Hierarchy in Elizabethan England
The Great Chain of Being
52
Another type of Elizabethan Theatre
Swan Theatre
53
Type of plays performed before Elizabeth's reign
Bible stories
54
Name given to lower classes who would watch the theatre
Groundlings
55
Leisure activity that happened outside of theatres
Cock-fighting
56
Famous play attacking Henry VII's precedessor
Richard III
57
Famous Elizabeth manor house
Hardwick
58
A huge wave of building which took place during Elizabeth's reign
The great rebuilding
59
Elizabeth becomes Queen
1558
60
Act of Supremacy
1559
61
Elizabeth's coronation
1559
62
Religious settlement
1559
63
Smallpox
1562
64
Northern Rebellion
1569
65
Excommunication
1570
66
Ridolfi Plot + Treason act
1571
67
Statutes of Apparel
1574
67
Statutes of Apparel
1574
68
Drake's circumnavigation
1577-80
69
Throckmorton Plot
1583
70
Babington Plot
1586
71
MQS is executed
1587
72
Spanish Armada
1588
73
First Poor law
1597
74
Cecil dies
1598
75
Globe theatre is built
1599
76
Second Poor law
1601
77
Essex Rebellion
1601
78
Elizabeth dies
1603
79
Type of farming used before enclosure
Agriculture
80
Tax used to fund the poor
Poor Law Tax
81
City which provided for the deserving poor
London
82
Punish those who begged
Vagabonds act
83
Vagabonds who would be women taking off clothes and beating men
Baretop Trickster
84
Two new materials used in the building of Elizabethan manor houses
Glass and Bricks
85
Manor houses were often built in this shape to represent the Queen
E-Shape
86
Pipes coming out of the top of manor houses, connected to fire places
Chimneys
87
This movement in Europe inspired much of the new Elizabeth architecture
Renaissance
88
Leather Waistcoat worn by men
Doublet
89
Padded shorts worn by men
Codpiece
90
Worn around the neck by gentry
Ruffs
91
Type of poor who are too lazy to work
Idle Poor
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When the cost of goods goes up and wages go down
Inflations
93
Name given to beggars
Vagabonds
94
Beggar who bit soap so he would froth at mouth to garner sympathy
Counterfeit Crank
95
Beggar who would fake injuries to garner sympathy
Clapper Dudgeon
96
Beggars who pretended to be mad by making noises.
Tom O bedlam
97
Princess Portrait
1546
98
Coronation Portrait
1559
99
Elizabeth on Horseback
1572
100
Ermine Portrait
1585
101
Armada Portrait
1588
102
The ditchley portrait
1592
103
The Rainbow Portrait
1600
104
The Posthumous Portrait
1603