Rulers
The Fairie Queen, known for appointing young protestants to her privy council.
What is Elizabeth I?
The country where Sea-Beggars sought refuge from Catholic persecution.
What is England?
The attempt of reconciling all Christians in England through compromise.
What is the Religious Settlement?
The lowest level of all Elizabethan society.
What is Vagabonds/Homeless?
The wife of Philip II of Spain, known for murdering 300 protestants in 5 years.
What is Mary I?
The country where Elizabeth funded, then sent troops to defend against Spain.
What is the Netherlands?
What is circumnavigation of the globe?
The highest level of Elizabethan society, based on titles held.
What is nobility?
Catholic wife of Francis II of France, and Mother of James VI of Scotland, deposed in 1567.
What is Mary Queen of Scots?
The country that surrounded the Papal States, ruled by Philip II's cousin, Charles V.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Francis Drake burned a port in Cadiz, Spain, 1587, delaying the Armada by a year.
What is Singeing of the King's Beard?
Those who lived in poverty because they were lazy.
What is the undeserving poor?
King of Spain who's marriage proposal to Elizabeth I was rejected.
What is Philip II?
The name for the newly discovered continents of the Americas.
What is the New World?
The first foreign Catholic plot against Elizabeth in 1571, resulting in the expulsion of a Papal Banker.
What is the Ridolfi Plot?
Those who lived in poverty because they were disabled, old, or sick.
What is the deserving poor?
The holy leader who excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570
What is Pope Pius V?
The country that allied with Spain against England in the Treaty of Joinville.
What is France?
The Catholic plot where Francis Walsingham intercepted a letter from Mary Queen of Scots giving permission to attempt to kill Elizabeth.
What is the Babington Plot?
Rich landed commoners, with no title.
What is the gentry?