Elizabeth

Question 1

Courtiers

Answer 1

Were usually members of the nobility. Courtiers spent much of their lives with Elizabeth I.

Question 2

Extraordinary taxation

Answer 2

Occasional, additional taxation to pay for unexpected expenses, especially war.

Question 3

Millita

Answer 3

A military force of ordinary people, rather than soldiers, usually raised in an emergency.

Question 4

Divine right

Answer 4

Belief that the monarch’s right to rule came from God.

Question 5

Crown

Answer 5

With a Capital C , the Crown refers to the monarch and their government.

Question 6

Succession

Answer 6

The issue of who was going to succeeded the throne after the existing monarch died.

Question 7

What are the five features of Elizabeth government?

Answer 7

Court
Privy council
Parliment
Lords Lieutenant
Justice of the peace

Question 8

How did Elizabeth have a legitimacy to to the English Throne?

Answer 8

Because Henry VIII (her father) had a divorce with his first wife, Catherine of Aragon which allowed him to marry Elizabeth’s mother Anne Boleyn.

Question 9

Roman Catholic

Answer 9

The form of Christianity followed throughout the whole of Western Europe until the 16th century. A feature of the Roman Catholicism includes allegiance to the pope, the head of the Catholic Church.

Question 10

How does Elizabeth gender and marriage affect her impact on the English Throne?

Answer 10

• some people believed the woman were not able to rule the government.
• Elizabeth rejected people to marry because of what her father did.
• it seemed unnatural and in society for women to rule
  -Woman were not considered to be physically, mentally or emotionally capable of government .

Question 11

What are the problems the Elizabeth had to face after Mary I’s Reign

Answer 11

• England had alliance with Spain in a war against France and had lost .morale was low.
• Mary’s marriage to King Philip II of Spain was so unpopular that led to a rebellion.
• England’s finances were poor and so many of its people which made the have bad harvest which led to poverty, hunger and disease.

Question 12

Queen Regnant

Answer 12

‘Regnant’ is a Latin word meaning ‘reigning’. Elizabeth was a queen Regnant because she ruled in her own right, like her sister, Mary.

Question 13

What was some of all of the key strength and character of Elizabeth I?

Answer 13

• She was highly intelligent and very well educated.
• she spoke Latin, Greek ,French an Italian.
• She is confident and charismatic,able to make great speeches and win over her subjects.
• she was held prisoner in the Tower of London for suspicion of treason against Mary I.

Question 14

What was some of the problems that Elizabeth faced abroad?

Answer 14

France
Mary Queen of Scots
Scotland
Spain
The Pope