Starter quiz
- ______ refers to the countryside.
- 'Rural' ✓
- Which of the following is the correct definition of subsistance?
- the act of maintaining oneself at a most basic level ✓
- the act of trying live above basic living conditions
- the act of keeping others at the most basic level
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- Why did sheep farming present problems for the rural poor?
- Many became unemployed as less people were needed to tend to the sheep. ✓
- Land enclosures for the sheep meant the poor had less land. ✓
- There were not enough sheep and so it was not profitable.
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- Rural people who moved in order to find work, food and shelter were known as ______.
- 'vagabonds' ✓
- Why did food prices increase during the Tudor period?
- There was less food being grown due to switch from crop to sheep farming. ✓
- There were poor harvests in the 1590s. ✓
- There was less common land available for subsistence. ✓
- There was more common land available for subsistance.
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- Which of the following statements best explains why the Elizabethan elite were alarmed by the ever-growing urban poor in London? Select the best explanation.
- They feared the occasional food riots.
- They feared that riots could transform into full-blown rebellion. ✓
- They feared the crime.
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