Elizabethan - Sections 5-6

Question 1

What is the ‘Merry England” interpretation?

Answer 1

Imagined a golden age

Question 2

What did the ‘Merry England’ interpretation include? (3)

Answer 2

1. People wore fine clothes
2. Everyone had plenty food
3. People got on well with each other

Question 3

Some Elizabethan popular pastimes

Answer 3

1. Sport
2. Festivities
3. The ale house (pub)

Question 4

Popular pastimes - What sports would be played?

Answer 4

Football and bear-baiting

Question 5

What was best-baiting?

Answer 5

Spectators bet on a pack of dogs attacking a tied up bear

Question 6

Popular pastimes- What festivities were celebrated?

Answer 6

Christmas, Saints day, May Day, Harvest Home

Question 7

Popular pastimes- What social groups went to the ale house?

Answer 7

Labouring poor and middling sort

Question 8

The puritan attack on popular pastimes - what was stopped?

Answer 8

1. Parish ales stopped in many areas
2. Ale houses closed
3. Maypoles were pulled down

Question 9

Who were responsible for stopping pastimes?

Answer 9

Puritan ministers

Question 10

Why did puritans stop pastimes?

Answer 10

Wanted people to live a purer Christian life

Question 11

Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Protecting the Sabbath

Answer 11

Puritans believed that Sunday should be reserved for prayer, not drinking and dancing

Question 12

Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Stopping pagan practices

Answer 12

Traditions, such as Mayday were pagan, not Christian

Question 13

Pagan

Answer 13

Don’t believe in religion or believe in more than one God

Question 14

Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Preventing violent disorder

Answer 14

Crowds at festivities often became drunk and violent. Puritans did not think this was Christian behaviour.

Question 15

Why did puritans stop popular pastimes? - Preventing sex outside marriage

Answer 15

Puritans believed that dancing and drinking at festivals, led to the sin of sex outside marriage

Question 16

When there were no theatres before Elizabeth’s reign, where did people perform?

Answer 16

Ale houses and parish ales

Question 17

Opposition to theatres - Puritan Ministers

Answer 17

Believed that plays, encouraged, unholy behaviour, and distracted people from prayer and Bible reading

Question 18

Opposition to theatres - The London city authorities

Answer 18

They see if crowds would spread of the plague or commit crimes

Question 19

Support for theatres - The Queen

Answer 19

Enjoyed the theatre and invited Shakespeare to perform at the Royal Court

Question 20

Opposition to theatres - ordinary people

Answer 20

Loved the theatre because it provided cheap entertainment

Question 21

What did Elizabethans believe about witches?

Answer 21

Witches could perform magic to cure illness, control the actions of others and recover stolen goods

Question 22

Witches were believed to have familiars. What are familiars?

Answer 22

Small animals such as cats or toads that assisted with their actions

Question 23

What year was the law against witches introduced?

Answer 23

1563

Question 24

What did the law against witches do to people who were suspected witches?

Answer 24

Death by hanging for using witchcraft to kill someone and prison for damage to property

Question 25

The number of witchcraft increased in the later years of Elizabeth’s reign. How much?

Answer 25

166 in the 1580s

Question 26

(Historians interpretations for the persecution of witches - Attacks on women) What percentage of women were accused of witchcraft?

Answer 26

90%

Question 27

Patriarchal society on why women were voted

Answer 27

A way to deal with women who did not have a husband to control them

Question 28

Why did Puritans encourage the persecution of witches?

Answer 28

To get rid of magical beliefs

Question 29

Theatres - Galleries

Answer 29

The covered raised areas of seating

Question 30

The theatres - The yard

Answer 30

Where the poor stood to watch

Question 31

What were the Algonquian?

Answer 31

One of the largest Native American groups

Question 32

How did the Algonquian make a living? (Woman and girls)

Answer 32

Grew crops

Question 33

How did the Algonquian make a living? (Boys and men)

Answer 33

Hunting and fishing

Question 34

What did the Algonquians believe about god?

Answer 34

Did not believe in individual gods but in a great spirit that inhabited the entire universe

Question 35

What was the Mughal Empire?

Answer 35

The most powerful and wealthy Empire in India

Question 36

Who ruled the Mughal Empire?

Answer 36

Akbar the Great

Question 37

What did Mughals believe?

Answer 37

Akbar tolerated other religions rather than his own (Muslim) and encouraged discussion about them

Question 38

What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Wealth)

Answer 38

Hoped to find gold and silver in North America

Question 39

What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Elizabeth)

Answer 39

Hoped his new colony would earn him patronage from the queen

Question 40

What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Spain)

Answer 40

Wanted to challenge the power of Catholic Spain

Question 41

What motivated Walter Raleigh to establish Roanoke? (Royal Support)

Answer 41

Elizabeth gave Raleigh permission to colonise Roanoke

Question 42

When did English settlers arrive on Roanoke?

Answer 42

1587

Question 43

Who was the chief of the Algonquian?

Answer 43

Chief Wingina

Question 44

What made the Algonquian and the settlers kill Chief Wingina?

Answer 44

Wingina decided to attack the settlers

Question 45

What happened when the Englishmen who had returned to get more supplies come back to the island? (1590)

Answer 45

The colony was deserted