9. Tudors

Question 1

Beginning of the Renaissance

Answer 1

1485

Question 2

Religious turmoil resulted in…

Answer 2

The English reformation

Question 3

Tudor England characteristics (name 4):

Answer 3

-colonial expansion,
-middle class
-urbanisation
-arts and literature

Question 4

What political system was developing in Tudor England?

Answer 4

Centralised and absolute monarchy
(with cooperation with Parliament)

Question 5

How was Henry VII called?

Answer 5

Salomon of England

Question 6

Henry VII’s foreign policy (name 2):

Answer 6

-trade promotion
-avoiding wars with France, Scotland

Question 7

Intercursus Magnus secured…..

Answer 7

English export of wool

Question 8

First “English” explorer:

Answer 8

John Cabot (1497): explored Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Labrador

Question 9

How many wifes did Henry VIII have?

Answer 9

Six

Question 10

Why did England become a European diplomatic power during Henry VIII’s rule?

Answer 10

Royal Navy, artillery fortifications,

Question 11

Henry VIII aimed to upheld the balance of power between…

Answer 11

France and Spain

Question 12

War of the Holy League was a conflict between…

Answer 12

England & Auld Alliance

Question 13

1513 -a Scottish national tragedy:

Answer 13

Battle of Flodden (1513)

Question 14

When was Wales officially annexed into England?

Answer 14

1536,1542

Question 15

Crown of Ireland Act (152)

Answer 15

Henry VIII becomes the King of Ireland

Question 16

Lollards were…

Answer 16

Supporters of John Wycliffe

Question 17

English reformation starts out of…..

Answer 17

Politics (NOT out of DOCTRINE)

Question 18

Reforms of the English church are based on…

Answer 18

acts of the English Parliament

Question 19

Why did Henry VIII become excommunicated?

Answer 19

He wanted to annul his marriage (due to no male successors)

Question 20

What did Henry VIII in responce to being excommunicated?

Answer 20

Called himself the Supreme head of the church

Question 21

Act of Supremacy (year +meaning)

Answer 21

Act of Supremacy -1534,
Meant that the kings will be the supreme heads of the church, not Rome

Question 22

How did the Church of England compromise Protestantism & Catholicism?

Answer 22

bishops remained, but were appointed by the king

Question 23

Who was Thomas Wolsey?

Answer 23

An excellent diplomat
(Henry VIII’s reign)

Question 24

Who was Thomas More?

Answer 24

Scholar and catholic humanist, executed and canonised

Question 25

Who was Thomas Cromwell?

Answer 25

Chief minister of the Crown, author of the Dissolution of Monasteries

Question 26

"Architect of the Rudor revolution":

Answer 26

Thomas Cromwell

Question 27

The official liturgy of the Church of England:

Answer 27

Books of Common Prayer (author: Thomas Cranmer)

Question 28

Who ruled after Henry VIII?

Answer 28

Edward VI

Question 29

Edwardian reformation:

Answer 29

Protestantism becomes dominant in England

Question 30

Who ruled after Edward VI?

Answer 30

Mary I Tudor (Bloody Mary)

Question 31

Mary I politics and religion:

Answer 31

She was catholic and prosecuted Protestants

Question 32

"The brightest jewel in the English Crown"

Answer 32

Calais

Question 33

Was was the Elizabethan age also called?

Answer 33

The golden age

Question 34

"Virgin Queen":

Answer 34

Elizabeth I

Question 35

Elizabeth I's politics:

Answer 35

-governed, not ruled -overseas expansion

Question 36

Elizabethan Religious Statement of 1559:

Answer 36

Compromise between extreme Protestantism and Catholicism, political stability

Question 37

Supreme GOVERNOR of the established Church of England:

Answer 37

Elizabeth I

Question 38

Church of England was still opposed by:

Answer 38

-Roman catholics -Scottish presbyterians -Puritans

Question 39

Who were the Puritans?

Answer 39

Extreme protestants, aiming to "purify" religion of all catholic elements. Growing in power

Question 40

Who started the House of Stuart?

Answer 40

James I of England (James VI of Scotland)

Question 41

Who was Francis Drake?

Answer 41

Most famous mariner in Elizabethan Age

Question 42

What was the Spanish Armada? (1558)

Answer 42

Spanish invasion of England

Question 43

Causes for the Spanish invasion (1558):

Answer 43

-to destroy protestantism -avenge Mary Stuart -English Sea Dogs

Question 44

Who were the "Sea dogs"?

Answer 44

State-paid pirates, who destroyed Spanish ships

Question 45

Result of the Spanish Armada (1588):

Answer 45

-English naval victory -decline of Spanish sea power

Question 46

Writers from the Elizabethan era:

Answer 46

Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney