Life in Elizabethan times

Question 1

What was the Great Chain of Being?

Answer 1

a tier of hierarchy of status

Question 2

What else was Hardwick Hall known as?

Answer 2

Elizabeth Shrewsbury

Question 3

When was Hardwick Hall built?

Answer 3

1590-97

Question 4

How did the gentry and the nobility show off their wealth?

Answer 4

building lavish country homes

Question 5

What are 3 features of a traditional ‘lavish country home’?

Answer 5

-open courtyards
-expensive glass windows
-symmetrical

Question 6

Acting provided jobs. Name one actor

Answer 6

Richard Burbage

Question 7

Name 1 theatre troupe

Answer 7

Lord Chamberlain’s men

Question 8

How many theatres were there in London by the end of Elizabeth’s reign?

Answer 8

7

Question 9

Name 2 theatres in London

Answer 9

-The Globe
-The Swan

Question 10

Where did the poor stand in the theatre?

Answer 10

pit

Question 11

What were the poor known as in the theatre?

Answer 11

groundlings/ penny stinkers

Question 12

Where did the rich sit in the theatre?

Answer 12

-galleries
-Lords’ rooms

Question 13

Golden Age: What were 3 features of fashion?

Answer 13

-large ruffs
-white makeup
-blackened teeth
-silk imported from Asia

Question 14

Golden Age: What was architecture influenced by?

Answer 14

Italian Renaissance

Question 15

Golden Age: Name 3 stately homes

Answer 15

-Hardwick Hall
-Burghley House
-Sheffield Manor Lodge

Question 16

What caused poverty?

Answer 16

-population increase
-flu
-agriculture

Question 17

Poverty: How was agriculture a cause?

Answer 17

-bad harvest (1594-98)
-new system: enclosure (more unemployment)

Question 18

Poverty: How many peopled died due to flu in 1556?

Answer 18

200,000

Question 19

Poverty: Who were the idle/ underserving poor?

Answer 19

-beggars
-anglers
-rufflers
-vagrants

Question 20

Poverty: Give an example of an Almshouse

Answer 20

Archbishop Whitgift in Croydon

Question 21

Poverty: Give an example of a hospital for the poor

Answer 21

St Bartholomew’s for the sick

Question 22

Poverty: Ipswich local scheme

Answer 22

-1569 introduced beggar licenses
-youth training scheme

Question 23

Poverty: York local scheme

Answer 23

-1515 issued beggar licenses
-House of Correction

Question 24

What year was the poor law?

Answer 24

1601

Question 25

What was the poor law?

Answer 25

-compulsory nationwide Poor Law tax
-indoor relief (workhouses)
-Almshouses for impotent poor

Question 26

3 British sailors

Answer 26

-Sir Francis Drake
-Sir Walter Raleigh
-John Hawkins

Question 27

When did Drake circumnavigate the world?

Answer 27

1577-80

Question 28

Sir Walter Raleigh was given royal permission to explore where?

Answer 28

the Americas

Question 29

Why did Raleigh want to explore the Americas?

Answer 29

colonise non Christian countries

Question 30

What was John Hawkins involved in?

Answer 30

slave trade

Question 31

What was the slave trade?

Answer 31

capturing West Africans and selling them in South America

Question 32

What were the impacts of the sailors?

Answer 32

-wealth
-power
-territory