Why was childbearing seen as such a great honor to women in the Elizabethan era?
What is because children were seen as gifts from god.
100
What did most meal consist of every class?
What is meat, wine, and beer.
100
What did actors do when disease was spreading around London?
What is preform for farmers on the outskirts of England.
100
why were most girls of the lower classes not schooled.
What is because formal schooling was frowned upon.
200
What were the names of the social classes?
What is the Monarchs, Nobility, Gentry, Merchants, and Laborers.
200
What jobs were women allowed to have?
What is being maids and cooks.
200
Why did everyone only drink wine and beer?
What is the water was never clean to drink.
200
What did the upper classes use and do for entertainment ?
What is fencing tournaments and hunting for a sport.
200
Why were some girls from the lower classes sent to live with families in the Nobility class?
What is so that the girls could learn manners and good behavior.
300
What was the highest class? Lowest?
What is the Monarchs and Laborers.
300
What jobs were women not allowed to have?
What is being a doctor, lawyer, politicians, or actresses in theater.
300
Why did the upper classes not eat fruit and vegetables?
What is because they did not want to eat anything that came from beneath them.
300
Why did queen Elizabeth ban plays on Thursday?
What is to have everyone in town watch bear-baiting.
300
How many girls were allowed to stay in a house at a time?
What is eight.
400
What are the two ways that people could change social classes?
What is if their family came into or lost wealth and if they married someone of a different class.
400
What types of literature were women allowed to write?
What is plays that men thought were suitable, or translated famous and religious works.
400
Why was the diet of the poor better than the diet of the rich?
What is because the poor would also drink milk when the water was bad. This is also because the poor would eat whatever the rich threw out; which consisted of milk, fruit, and vegetables.
400
What is bear-baiting?
What is a form of entertainment that involved setting dogs to attack a captive bear.
400
Why did the girls in the Nobility and Gentry classes have tutors come to their houses?
What is public schools were only for boys and when the girls got at home tutoring it focused in on the subjects they were having problems with.
500
What were the highest three classes? Lowest two?
What is the Monarch, Nobility, and Gentry. What is Merchant and Laborers.
500
If a women acted on a stage what happened to them in the community?
What is the women would be shunned for a week.
500
Where did the silverware come from that the upper classes ate off of?
What is Holland.
500
What other things did people do in that time to stay entertained?
What is archery, hide-and-seek, backgammon, and billiards.