Elizabethan 3

• What did humanists believe about education?

  Learning was important in its own right
• Why did Protestants support education?

  Believed people should read the Bible
• What did noble children learn?

  Latin, Greek, history, philosophy, government, theology
• What did noble girls learn?

  Music, dancing, needlework
• What did noble boys learn?

  Fencing, swimming, wrestling
• Where did boys from the ‘middling sorts’ learn?

  Grammar schools
• How many grammar schools were founded?

  42 in the 1560s; 30 in the 1570s
• Where did girls go to school?


  Most girls did not, but if they did, they went to a dame school
• What education did poor children receive?

  No school-based education
• What were literacy rates like?

  By 1603, 30% of men and 10% of women were literate
• What universities existed?

  Oxford and Cambridge
• What leisure activities were there for the nobility?

  Hunting, hawking, fishing, fencing, tennis
• What leisure activities were there for the poor?

  Football
• What leisure activities were enjoyed by all men?

  Gambling, wrestling and swimming, bear-baiting, cockfighting
• What other leisure activities were there?

  Literature, theatre, music, and dancing
• Why did poverty increase?

  Population growth; rising prices; changes in the use of land due to sheep farming and enclosure
• What were the categories of ‘poor’?

  impotent (i.e. deserving) poor - vulnerable people; and able-bodied (or idle) poor - i.e. those who could work but did not have work
• What three laws were passed to deal with the poor?

  1563 Statute of Artificers, 1572 Vagabonds Act; 1576 Poor Relief Act
• Why did Elizabethan exploration increase?

  Trade opportunities; the discovery of the North-West passage made it easier; the desire for adventure; new technology; to establish colonies; to annoy Philip II
• What was Drake’s ship called?

  The Golden Hind
• Where did Walter Raleigh try to establish a settlement?

  Virginia
• What challenges were there in organising the Virginia Project?

  Finding colonists and sailors; appointing leaders; issues with ships and timings
• Why did Elizabeth and Raleigh want Virginia colonised?

  To undermine Spain; to set the roots for an empire; economic benefits
• Why did the Virginia Project fail?

  The voyage; the colonists; inexperience; native American resistance
• Which settlement was abandoned for unknown reasons?

  Roanoke