Knowledge test 4

Question 1

Name two ways in which the poor could be identified

Answer 1

Illiterate, did not own land, spent about 80% of income on food and drink

Question 2

Which area of England was the poorest during Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 2

The north-west

Question 3

How much did England’s population rise by between 1550 and 1600?

Answer 3

43%

Question 4

What term is used to describe the situation where prices rise faster than wages?

Answer 4

Inflation

Question 5

Why was there more silver in circulation in Europe by the sixteenth century?

Answer 5

Spain brought silver back to Europe from the New World

Question 6

What term is used to describe the high rents charged by greedy landlords?

Answer 6

Rack-renting

Question 7

What term is used to describe the conversion of the open fields system to combined fields surrounded buy hedges/walls?

Answer 7

Enclosure

Question 8

What are ‘dearth’ conditions?

Answer 8

When food is so scarce that famine is likely

Question 9

What are the two main groups of poor people that Elizabethans believed existed?

Answer 9

The idle poor and the impotent poor (undeserving/deserving poor)

Question 10

Elizabeth carried out a full recoinage early in her reign. What did this mean?

Answer 10

Old debased coins were melted down and new ones made

Question 11

When was the Elizabethan Poor Law passed and when was it amended?

Answer 11

1597 and 1601

Question 12

When did the Elizabethan Poor Law last until?

Answer 12

1834

Question 13

Which empire blocked the land trade route to the East?

Answer 13

The Ottoman Empire

Question 14

Which device meant that a ship’s location could be plotted more accurately?

Answer 14

The astrolabe

Question 15

Name three European explorers from the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Answer 15

Bartholomew Diaz, Vasco de Gama, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci

Question 16

What name was given to English pirates who Elizabeth allowed to loot Spanish ships?

Answer 16

Privateers

Question 17

When was the East India Company formed?

Answer 17

1600

Question 18

Name two famous English explorers from the Elizabethan period

Answer 18

Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 19

What was a privateer?

Answer 19

Pirates licensed by the government to attack and loot enemy ships

Question 20

Where was England’s first successful colony in the New World set up 4 years after the death of Elizabeth?

Answer 20

Virginia in America