Skye Simon, Elyzah Reyes, Aaliyah
Stoke
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The food varies according to status and wealth especially
meat. The food is prepared for great visual effects.
Peacock feathers are used to decorate cooked meals. The
foods were presented in strange shapes and forms. The
lower class workers ate bread and cheese. Water was not
used because it was dirty at the time. The villagers drank
wine and ale. Honey was used to make a sweet alcohol
drink called mead. They also drank “Apple-wine” and beer.
Increased cultivation of fruit trees.
Festivals and holidays were a major part of the Elizabeathan
lifestyle. They were made by mostly churches and the law
made villagers go. In the Spring Easter is in March and it
celebrates the crucifix and resurrection of Christ. They had
plays about Christ. April fools was on April 1st were all
rules were non existence on that day. May day is when
individuals chose a queen for the month and dance around
a “maypole” covered in ribbons and flowers. Solstice in
June is when villagers attend the “festival of fire”. People
throw bones in a bonfire .July 15th was Swithin’s day
celebrating a bishop and its supposed to rain for 40 days.
Lammastide which is “ Lammas day” is the first wheat
harvest of the year. September 29th is Michaelmas day. In
the winter great feasts were held in honor of Christs birth.
12 days in honor of 12 apostles.
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Elizabethan Women's Clothing - gowns, hats, corsets,
underwear, collars, ruffs and shoes.
 Elizabethan Men's Clothing - doublets, breeches,
underwear, collars, ruffs, hats and shoes.
regardless of their wealth, Elizabethans were not allowed to
wear what clothes they liked. Their clothing and items of
apparel were dictated by the Elizabethan Sumptuary Laws
which governed the style and materials worn. The
Elizabethan Sumptuary Clothing Laws were used to control
behavior and to ensure that a specific class structure was
maintained.
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The Elizabethan era was during the reign of Elizabeth
I, and life in this time depended on your status and
location; the rich and royal lived luxuriously while
the poor were subjected to menial jobs to survive.
Life was busiest during harvest seasons and hay
making periods. Women were subservient to men and
had to endure arranged marriages. Diseases ran
rampant among the peasents.
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England comprises most of the central and southern twothirds of the island of Great Britain. Much of England consists
of rolling hills, but it is generally more mountainous in the
north with a chain of mountains. England has a temperate
climate with plentiful rainfall all year round. The seasons are
quite variable in temperature, however temperatures rarely
fall below −5 °C (23 °F) or rise above 30 °C (86 °F). The
prevailing wind is from the south-west, bringing mild and wet
weather to England regularly from the Atlantic Ocean.
At the time Elizabeth inherited the throne of England, the
English treasury had virtually no money, mostly because of
the cost of financing the wars of Phillip II. The most important
commodity in the English economy was woollen cloth.
Elizabeth had a major hand in the English economy. To the
detriment of England, she largely increased the number of
monopolies .
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