Elizabethan unit- history- life in elizabethan england

What caused an increase in poverty

how did closure of monastries(1), rack renting(2), inflation(3) and decline in cloth trade affect poverty(4)?

What was the poor law?

What two laws were introduced to help poor

How significant was francis drake,john hawkins and walter?

why is was a golden age?

why it was not a golden age?

Give two ways the rich showed off their wealth

What was the ‘Great Chain of Being’?

Who were the nobility?

Who were the ‘gentry’?

what was the societal order

who wer more powerful: gentry or nobility?

How did gentry gain more power during this period?

what does the globe and theatre tell us about Elizabethan society?

Give one reason why some people opposed the Theatre.