Family life: husbands and wives, parents and children, wider kinship (OCR GCSE History B (Schools History Project)): Flashcards
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What determined Elizabethan social status & wealth?
What determined Elizabethan social status & wealth?
Land ownership
Principal occupation in Elizabethan England
Principal occupation in Elizabethan England
Farming
Who benefited from rising food prices?
Who benefited from rising food prices?
Landowners and farmers
England's financial capital in Elizabethan times
England's financial capital in Elizabethan times
London
Most common Elizabethan household type
Most common Elizabethan household type
Nuclear families
Social expectation for all Elizabethans
Social expectation for all Elizabethans
Marriage
Head of the Elizabethan household
Head of the Elizabethan household
Husband
Legal status of Elizabethan wives
Legal status of Elizabethan wives
Property of their husbands
Expected role of wives regarding children
Expected role of wives regarding children
Produce children, preferably male heirs
How women were raised to view themselves
How women were raised to view themselves
Inferior to men
Infant mortality rate in Elizabethan times
Infant mortality rate in Elizabethan times
High
Age wealthy children sent to school
Age wealthy children sent to school
Seven
Age poor children started helping at home/farm
Age poor children started helping at home/farm
Seven
Occupation of city children in Elizabethan times
Occupation of city children in Elizabethan times
Apprentices in guilds
Classes where kinship mattered most
Classes where kinship mattered most
Gentry, nobility, and middling sort