AQA A-Level History the Tudors 1485 to 1603 overview quiz quiz

The Battle of Stoke Field

The Battle of Flodden

The Battle of Towton

Bosworth

Binding the nobility to loyalty through financial penalties

Funding voyages of overseas exploration to the New World

Paying the wages of the standing royal army in peacetime

Reforming the doctrine and the structure of the English Church

Traditional Catholic doctrine as the official faith right across England

That the monarch was Supreme Head of the Church of England

The permanent dissolution of Parliament by royal command

Full religious toleration for all faiths within the realm

Thomas More

Stephen Gardiner

Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Cranmer

The Pilgrimage of Grace and Wyatt's Rebellion against the crown

The Northern Earls' Rebellion and the Essex Rebellion in London

The Cornish Rebellion and Lambert Simnel's pretender rising

The Western (Prayer Book) Rebellion and Kett's Rebellion

Mary I's marriage to Philip II of Spain

The dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII

The Elizabethan religious settlement passed in 1559

High levels of taxation imposed by the crown on the people

Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex

William Cecil, Lord Burghley

Sir Francis Walsingham, the spymaster

Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester

Officially recognised the Church of England and its supreme head

Brought a formal end to the Spanish threat to the realm

Excommunicated Elizabeth and released Catholics from allegiance

Imposed the Latin Mass on every parish across the kingdom

1571

1601

1558

1588

Parish-based poor relief funded by a poor rate

A national income tax levied to pay for poor relief

Large central workhouses run directly by the Church

The complete abolition of all begging across the realm

Whether Henry VII was genuinely a miser obsessed with hoarding money

Whether the years 1547 to 1558 were a period of genuine crisis

Whether the defeat of the Spanish Armada was ultimately inevitable

Whether Elizabeth I should have married and secured the succession