Elizabethan England - Chapter 3 (Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration)

Question 1

Why was education important in in Elizabethan England?

Answer 1

It helped prepare you for the life you were expected to lead

Question 2

Which group of people were more likely to be educated during the period?

Answer 2

Nobility

Question 3

What were grammar schools?

Answer 3

Schools set up for boys in which they were taught many skills and subjects
- the school say was very structured (learning monday - thursday and recaping on friday)

Question 4

Give an example of what boys were expected to do in grammar schools?

Answer 4

1. Memorise huge quantities of texts, like bible passages
2. learn morals and manners
3. Learn public speaking and debating

Question 5

Give 2 examples of punishments in Elizabethan grammar schools

Answer 5

• Excluson from school

- Being kept in at break time

Question 6

What were petty farmers?

Answer 6

Schools for boys, that were set up and run in a teachers home

Question 7

What were dame schools?

Answer 7

Schools for girls, that provided basic education and learning skills

Question 8

Poorer children were taught by ….

Answer 8

their families

Question 9

How big an impact did schools have on Elizabethans?

Answer 9

around 30% of men and 10% women were educated were literate by the end of Elizabethan I’s reign in 1603

Question 10

What factors did a family need to consider before sending their child to a school?

Answer 10

The cost of the school

Question 11

What were the two universities that students could go to during the time and what subjects could they study in these universities?

Answer 11

1. Oxford
2. Cambridge

they can study Medicine, law, Astronomy e.t.c

Question 12

What sports were played by the nobility?

Answer 12

1. hunting on horseback, with hounds
2. hawking
3. fishing
4. fencing (only men)
5. real tennis (only men)

Question 13

What sport did lower class people play?

Answer 13

Football

Question 14

Name two spectator sports?

Answer 14

1. Bear baiting

2. cock fighting

Question 15

Name 3 pastimes n the Elizabethan period?

Answer 15

1. Literature
2. theatre
3. music and dancing

Question 16

What were mystery plays?

Answer 16

Plays that brought the bible and saints stories to life for an audience

Question 17

Who were more likely to be poor?

Answer 17

1. Women
2. Young children
3. itinerants (people who left their home parishes looking for work)

Question 18

Why did poverty increase?

Answer 18

1. As the population of london increased, there were more people to feed, and the price of food in towns rose
2. Rises increased when harvests were bad
3. Wages did not rise as fast as prices
4. Landowners charged a higher rent for land as the demand for land grew with population

Question 19

Why was sheep farming blamed for poverty problems?`

Answer 19

1. Sheep farming took land that couldve been used for growing crops
2. Sheep farming didnt require as much labour as growing crops so unemployment rose
3. Some crops were grown only for the animals to eat

Question 20

What does enclosing land mean and why did farmers enclose the land?

Answer 20

Enclosing the land meant replacing large open fields that were farmed by villagers, with individual fields belonging to 1 person

Enclosing the land stopped animals from wandering off and trampling on other crops

Question 21

What were the 3 laws passed by elizabeth, tyat helped deal with the poor and what were their aims?

Answer 21

1. 1563 Statute of Artificiers: to ensure that poor relief was collected
2. 1572 Vagabonds Act : To deter vagrancy
3. 1576 Poor Relief: To distinguish between able bodies and impotent poor , and to help the able bodied poor find work

Question 22

What led Elizabethans to explore?

Answer 22

Trade

Question 23

How did navigation (and therefore, maps) become more precise?

Answer 23

1. Through the use of Quadrants and Astrolobes
2. Through a way of using the sun to calculate the true sailing direction of a ship
3. Maps could now be printed

Question 24

How did Ship design improve?

Answer 24

1. ships were larger and more stable
2. were more manoeuvrable (mast) and faster
3. Better fire power

Question 25

Who was Walter Raleigh?

Answer 25

An explorer and courtier during Elizabeths reign

Question 26

What were the economic benefits of Raleighs colonisation project?

Answer 26

1. Native Americas bartered for simple, cheap English goods like Woollen cloth
2. The colony would provide work for English cloth makers and merchants
3. The colony would provide England with exotic materials such as gold and tobacco

Question 27

Why did the attempts to colonise virginia fail?

Answer 27

1. The voyage
2. Their expectations of virginia was too unrealistic
3. Inexperience (they relied too much on the Native Americans)