Elizabethan society and government Flashcards
Who were the different types of people in the hierarchy in the countryside?
Queen Elizabeth
Wealthy nobility and gentry
Yeomen farmers
Tenant farmers
labourers
Who were the different people in the hierarchy in the towns
Merchants
professionals
Artisans
Laborers
vagrants
What status did women have
Didn’t have status of their own
Give three powers that the monarch had when she was governing the country
patronage
royal prerogative
Accept or reject parliaments laws
Give two of Parliament powers
Increase taxes
Advise Queen
Give two of the privy councils powers
Ran government
In charge of spying and courts
Give two points about the court
Made up of nobles and gentry
Used patronage to appoint them
Give two points about what Elizabeth’s character was like
She was intelligent
she said “I have one mistress (herself) and no master” (no man was above her)
Two advantages of getting married and two advantages of not getting married
Would provide an heir
Stop privy council worrying about succession
Keep religion under control
Could use the suggestion of marriage to influence foreign countries
Three pastimes/leisure activities of the noble/gentry
Hunting
Fencing
Real tennis
Three pastimes/leisure activities of the lower class
Football
Blood sports
Theater
Two examples of blood sports
Bear baiting
Cock fighting
Two features of both football and the theater
No rules
Any number of players
Rich sat in the gallery
Others paid 1D to stand in the pit
Two points about the education of children of the nobility
Home tutors
learnt Latin or Greek
Two points about grammar schools
Learnt ancient History
corporal punishment
