Elizabeth C3 (Society In The Age Of Exploration)

Question 1

Itinerants

Answer 1

People moved from home parishes for work

Question 2

Vagabonds

Answer 2

Homeless people who roamed the countryside begging for work and committed crime

Question 3

Economic Recession

Answer 3

Fall in demands left to business failure and unemployment

Question 4

Rural Depopulation

Answer 4

People leave their small villages to the city and towns wanting work

Question 5

Population growth

Answer 5

Grew by 35% food could’t keep up

Question 6

Rising Prices

Answer 6

Price in food increased

Question 7

Sheep farming

Answer 7

Price of wall increased, some farms could’t cope with the demand

Question 8

2 types of poor

Answer 8

• impotent/deserving

- able/idle

Question 9

Two ways Elizabeth deals with the problems of poverty

Answer 9

Poor relief- financial help for poor

Poor rate- special tax for poor relief

Question 10

1563 Statute of Artificers

Answer 10

• beggars punished if caught 3x death
• kept count of poor people
• local people had to pay for poor rate
• oversees for areas to help poor relief

Question 11

1572 Vagabonds Act

Answer 11

• beggars sent to work in the House of Corrections

- Justices of Peace help people who genuinely were unable to find a job to find one

Question 12

1576 Poor Relief Act

Answer 12

• Overseers in each parish
• apprenticeships for young people
• elderly and sick given homes
• JPs made sure all people paid poor rate

Question 13

4 Successes of Elizabeth Polices towards poverty

Answer 13

• laws passed
• towns provided work
• tax was efficient
• school, hospitals built

Question 14

3 Failures of Elizabeth’s policies towards the poor

Answer 14

• still problems with vagabonds
• trade poor because of Spain conflict
• poverty still a major problem as different approaches in towns

Question 15

4 reasons why Elizabethans wanted to explore

Answer 15

• politics (war made trade bad, more power/control)
• economics (new cloth, riches, slaves)
• new technology (new navigation/better ships)
• sense of exploring into the unknown

Question 16

Significance of Drake’s circumnavigation

Answer 16

• boost morale as best sailor in world
• lost many men
• discovered parts of America in the south not norht

Question 17

Walter Raleigh

Answer 17

• planned the first colony of Virginia
• persuaded people to go
• developed blue prints for colony

Question 18

4 Reasons why Virginia was seen as important

Answer 18

• attack Spanish colonies
• set up for future colonies
• increase trade
• not rely on Mediterranean

Question 19

6 Reasons for failure of the colonisation of Virginia

Answer 19

• not enough farmers
• locals did’t help
• descriptions did’t match expectations
• food ruined when ship got damaged
• fort made from wood not stone
• not the right ratio of people

Question 20

Roanoke

Answer 20

• lost colony

- only piece of evidence was ‘Croatoan’ which was a nearby Island but only native Americans were found there

Question 21

Education for poor people

Answer 21

• no formal education

- learned practical jobs from families

Question 22

Education for well-off/ middle class children

Answer 22

• Boys has Pelty (reading/writing at young age) and Grammar (learned more advanced like langauages) schools
• Girls had Dame schools (reading/writing) or at home by mothers

Question 23

Education for Upper Class Children

Answer 23

• boys had private tutors then Oxbridge at 14/15 of Inns to be lawyer
• girls had private tutors, then sent to noble house to be noble woman and complete education

Question 24

Entertainment

Answer 24

• literature (Greek mythologies) and theatre (Bible plays
• Hunting and Fishing for upper class and provided training for war
• Music and dancing, upper class go to public events

Question 25

Sports

Answer 25

• football for lower class men (very violent)
• bear baiting where dogs would attack bear on pole
• bull baiting
• Cockerels fighting