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Elizabethan - Sections 5-6 Flashcards

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What is the ‘Merry England” interpretation?

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Imagined a golden age

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What did the ‘Merry England’ interpretation include? (3)

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  1. People wore fine clothes
  2. Everyone had plenty food
  3. People got on well with each other
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Some Elizabethan popular pastimes

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  1. Sport
  2. Festivities
  3. The ale house (pub)
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Popular pastimes - What sports would be played?

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Football and bear-baiting

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What was best-baiting?

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Spectators bet on a pack of dogs attacking a tied up bear

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Popular pastimes- What festivities were celebrated?

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Christmas, Saints day, May Day, Harvest Home

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Popular pastimes- What social groups went to the ale house?

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Labouring poor and middling sort

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The puritan attack on popular pastimes - what was stopped?

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  1. Parish ales stopped in many areas
  2. Ale houses closed
  3. Maypoles were pulled down
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Who were responsible for stopping pastimes?

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Puritan ministers

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Why did puritans stop pastimes?

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Wanted people to live a purer Christian life

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Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Protecting the Sabbath

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Puritans believed that Sunday should be reserved for prayer, not drinking and dancing

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Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Stopping pagan practices

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Traditions, such as Mayday were pagan, not Christian

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Pagan

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Don’t believe in religion or believe in more than one God

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Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Preventing violent disorder

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Crowds at festivities often became drunk and violent. Puritans did not think this was Christian behaviour.

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Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Preventing sex outside marriage

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Puritans believed that dancing and drinking at festivals, led to the sin of sex outside marriage

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When there were no theatres before Elizabeth’s reign, where did people perform?

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Ale houses and parish ales

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Opposition to theatres - Puritan Ministers

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Believed that plays, encouraged, unholy behaviour, and distracted people from prayer and Bible reading

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Opposition to theatres - The London city authorities

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They see if crowds would spread of the plague or commit crimes

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Support for theatres - The Queen

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Enjoyed the theatre and invited Shakespeare to perform at the Royal Court

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Opposition to theatres - ordinary people

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Loved the theatre because it provided cheap entertainment

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What did Elizabethans believe about witches?

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Witches could perform magic to cure illness, control the actions of others and recover stolen goods

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Witches were believed to have familiars. What are familiars?

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Small animals such as cats or toads that assisted with their actions

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What year was the law against witches introduced?

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1563

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What did the law against witches do to people who were suspected witches?

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Death by hanging for using witchcraft to kill someone and prison for damage to property

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The number of witchcraft increased in the later years of Elizabeth’s reign. How much?

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166 in the 1580s

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(Historians interpretations for the persecution of witches - Attacks on women) What percentage of women were accused of witchcraft?

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90%

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Patriarchal society on why women were voted

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A way to deal with women who did not have a husband to control them

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Why did Puritans encourage the persecution of witches?

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To get rid of magical beliefs

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Theatres - Galleries

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The covered raised areas of seating

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The theatres - The yard

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Where the poor stood to watch

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What were the Algonquian?

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One of the largest Native American groups

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How did the Algonquian make a living? (Woman and girls)

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Grew crops

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How did the Algonquian make a living? (Boys and men)

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Hunting and fishing

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What did the Algonquians believe about god?

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Did not believe in individual gods but in a great spirit that inhabited the entire universe

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What was the Mughal Empire?

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The most powerful and wealthy Empire in India

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Who ruled the Mughal Empire?

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Akbar the Great

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What did Mughals believe?

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Akbar tolerated other religions rather than his own (Muslim) and encouraged discussion about them

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What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Wealth)

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Hoped to find gold and silver in North America

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What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Elizabeth)

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Hoped his new colony would earn him patronage from the queen

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What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Spain)

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Wanted to challenge the power of Catholic Spain

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What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Royal Support)

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Elizabeth gave Raleigh permission to colonise Roanoke

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When did English settlers arrive on Roanoke?

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1587

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Who was the chief of the Algonquian?

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Chief Wingina

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What made the Algonquian and the settlers kill Chief Wingina?

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Wingina decided to attack the settlers

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What happened when the Englishmen who had returned to get more supplies come back to the island? (1590)

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The colony was deserted

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