Elizabethan England & Renaissance History Quiz

The 16th and 17th Centuries in Britain

• The monarch who laid the foundation for the 17th century Union of the Crowns by marrying Henry VII's daughter was James IV of Scotland.
• During Elizabeth's reign, England expelled Spain from their last outposts on the continent.
• The Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604 was fought on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
• James IV of Scotland ended the quasi-independent rule of the Lord of the Isles, bringing the Western Isles under effective Royal control for the first time.
• In 1512, Scotland and France extended the Auld Alliance treaty, granting nationals of both countries citizenship in each other's countries.
• Two universities founded in Scotland during the 15th century were St. Andrews and Glasgow.
• The last Scottish king known to speak Gaelic was James IV.
• The English Renaissance reached its peak during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
• The major war that occurred on English soil after the end of the Wars of the Roses was the War of the League of Cambrai.
• The Tudors established the Court of Requests, a new institution to centralize and rationalize the English state.
• The major factor that enhanced the power of the sovereign and undermined the power of the feudal nobility during the Tudor period was the growth of absolute monarchy.
• Henry VIII declared himself the head of the new Anglican Church during the Tudor period.
• The English Reformation was the process by which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
• The main reason for the rise of the commercial classes during the Tudor period was the growth of trade and commerce.
• Early modern British history roughly corresponds to the 16th to 18th centuries.
• The event not considered a major historical event in early modern British history is the discovery of the New World.
• The term used to refer to a cultural movement in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance, is the English Renaissance.
• Edmund Spenser's most famous work is The Faerie Queene.
• Britain had numerous wars with France, Spain, and Scotland during early modern British history.
• Notable authors of drama during the English Renaissance include William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
• Some cultural historians have contended that the 'English Renaissance' was a cultural movement that was heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance.
• The English forces were victorious at the Battle of Pinkie, thanks to the leadership of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.
• The Rough Wooing was a series of English invasions of Scotland during the 1540s.
• James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, was the Regent of Scotland for Mary, Queen of Scots.
• The Battle of Flodden Field was a decisive English victory that led to the death of James IV of Scotland.
• Marie de Guise was the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots.
• The fate of Mary, Queen of Scots was execution by beheading in 1587.
• The outcome of the Battle of Langside was the defeat of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her flight to England.
• The Protestant Reformation was a movement that sought to reform the Catholic Church and eventually led to the establishment of Protestantism.
• Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, was the Lord Protector of England during the minority of Edward VI.