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Name Elizabeth I parents?

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Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

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Name her sister and brother?

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Mary I and Edward VI

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Name 3 royal residences?

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Whitehall Palace, St James Palace, Hampton Court, Greenwich, Nonsuch, Tower of London (times of trouble) Windsor Castle

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What is a progresses?

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Elizabeth in the hot summer would travel with her court to homes of the nobility

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What was the Privy Councils job?

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Co-ordination of financial departments, law courts, issued instructions to local offices such as Lord Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace

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Name four Privy Council members?

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Sir William Cecil, Sir Francis Walsingham, Robert Dudley, Sir Christopher Hatton

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Which rebellion took place in 1569?

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Norfolk – The Northern Rebellion

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Which rebellion took place in 1571?

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Norfolk – The Ridolfi Plot

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Which rebellion took place in 1601?

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Essex

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Name two possible marriage suitors for Elizabeth?

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Robert Dudley, Phillip II, Charles of Austria, Eric of Sweden, Duke of Alençon

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Explain why it was called the Golden Age?

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Culture blossomed – theatre, art, architecture, music and literature.

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What are doublets and Farthingales?

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Doublet – long sleeved silk or satin shirt with ruffles at the end. Farthingales – a petticoat with wooden hoops sewn into it

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Name 3 famous Elizabethan houses?

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Hardwick Hall, Chatsworth House, Little Moreton hall, Montecute House etc…

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Name a famous playwright?

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William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Dekker, Christopher Marlow

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Name a famous theatre built in London?

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The Globe

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Why portraits were important – clue Gloriana?

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It was not about vanity, it was to ensure political allegiance – ‘Gloriana’ was developed to make Elizabeth and object of worship for her people

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What was a vagabond?

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A homeless person of no fixed abode, who moved from town to town looking for work

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What were the poor Laws?

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Laws to help the poor people paid in towns/villages by local rich, gentry and business owners. It was a national system supposedly to sort the ‘poor problem out’

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Which famous explorer set sail in 1577 and returned with £400,000 treasure captured from the Spanish?

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Sir Francis Drake

20
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Which famous explorer is reputed to have introduced potatoes and tobacco to England?

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Who were the Puritans?

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Strict followers of Protestantism, anti-Catholic Church, influenced by Calvinist ideas

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What was the ‘Middle Way’?

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Elizabeth’s attempt to please both the Catholics and Protestants within England with a law 1559 Act of Uniformity

23
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How many years was Mary Queen of Scots kept in captivity in England before execution in 1587?

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Nineteen Years

24
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Mary for some time was kept in Tutbury castle; which plot took place to free her from here?

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Babington plot 1586

25
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Which Spanish king led the Spanish Armada?

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Phillip II

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Name 5 qualities of Elizabeth

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Intelligent, cautious, powerful, indecisive and determined

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What were the two Chambers of Parliament?

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House of Lords - made up of nobility and senior churchman. They were NOT elected.

House of Commons - They were elected but the Crown and other powerful local figures often controlled who was chosen

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Which famous playwright began writing in this era?

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William Shakespeare

29
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When did English sailors begin taking an interest in Exploration?

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1560s

30
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Who was Elizabeth’s cousin with a strong claim to the throne?

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Mary Queen of Scots

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When did the Pope excommunicate (expel) the Queen from the Catholic Church?

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1570

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When did the Spanish Armada set out?

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May 1588 but were delayed for several weeks due to bad weather and in July they were sighted off Cornwall

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