Active vocabulary

1. merchant expansion

2. rival

3. to allow to trade

4. privateers

5. feeble woman

6. ‘chartered’ company

7. badge

8. to give up speaking

9. Catholic

10. Protestant

11. to have poor judgement

I. Answer the following questions:

The new foreign policy

1. Speak on the foreign policy during the Tudor period.

2. What was Elizabeth’s policy towards Spain?

3. How was the sea trade of England built?

4. When and how did Philip decide to conquer England?

5. What was the difference between the Spanish and the English fleet?

The new trading empire.

1. What were the first colonists who sailed to America?

2. Speak on such outstanding men as Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake and John Hawkins. What role did the play in the trade of England?

3. When was the Merchant Adventurers Company established?

4. What was a ‘charter’?

5. Why was the East India Company established?

Wales

1. What was Henry VIII interest in Wales?

2. Comment on the policy of the names in Wales?

3. What was the position of a Welsh language?

Ireland

1. What was the Tudor’s campaign towards Ireland?

Scotland and England

1. How did the economy of Scotland influence on the centralization of the Scottish monarchy?

2. What was the English influence on Spain?

Mary Queen of Scots and the Scottish Reformation

1. Describe the difference between Kirk and the English Church.

2. What was Mary’s attitude to religion and to marriage?

A Scottish king for England

1. How is James VI remembered?

2. What was his greatest success?

CHAPTER 12. GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY

Active vocabulary

1. musket

2. borough

3. inflation

4. to push prices up

5. silver and gold pouring

6. enclosure

7. to riot

8. Apprentices

9. chimney

10. the Renaissance

11. miniature portrait

I. Answer the following questions:

Tudor Parliaments

1. What did Henry VIII use Parliament for?

2. What was the position of Parliament in the early 16^th c?

3. Give the reasons to the shift of power from the House of Lords to the House of Commons?

4. What did the Crown do to control discussion in Parliament?

5. What things Parliament was supposed to do until the end of the Tudor period?

6. How can you comment Elizabeth’s methods of raising money?

Rich and poor in town and country

1. Speak on the situation of the countryside in the 16^th –17th cc?

2. What did the sudden increase in population bring to Britain?

3. What do you know about “Pilgrimage of Grace”?

4. How was the problem of unemployed and homeless solved?

5. Describe the differences btw the rich and poor.

6. Comment on the development of industry.

Domestic life

1. What were the light and dark sides of a married life in that period?

2. What was the view of an Italian visitor to English society in Tudor times?

3. Who suffered badly during the Tudor period?

Language and culture

1. Describe the state of language and culture in the Tudor times.

2. Compare it with earlier periods.

Part IV the stuarts

CHAPTER 13 CROWN AND PARLIAMENT

Active vocabulary

1. policy of selling monopolies

2. ageing

3. ‘divine right’

4. to be above the law

5. to dissolve

6. to imprison

7. budget

8. to get rid of

9. ‘cavalier’

10. to be at the height of one’s power

11. Presbyterian

12. Puritan