Elizabethan+beliefs+and+ideas

​** __Religion in Elizabethan England__ **
 * ​Queen Elizabeth was very religious so she enforced on the people of England the rule of if you didn't attend church when you were supposed to then you would be punished. Most of the English people were catholic up until around the 16th century.


 * Henry the VIII argued with the pope later breaking away from the church of Rome.



[|The Renaissance]
 * The Renaissance was the rebirth of learning/people became interested in learning again.


 * In the 14th century learning became of first interest around Italy and then started to spread through Europe.


 * In Greece and Rome art, architecture, music and literature became popular. This was a time of change, questioning and vitality. People became more independent and started thinking for themselves and not believing everything they were told. The plays that Shakespeare's




 * Medicine __and science__ **
 * People knew very little about health care back then.


 * They didn't know dirt influences disease. people thought if someone was sick they could be cured by leaches. Unfortunately this normally killed the patient instead of the disease. People believed that if you had the correct proportion of the 4 liquids in your body you were a healthy person.


 * These 4 liquids are phlegm which made one quiet and calm, blood which made one courageous, choler which makes one angry, melancholy which made one sad or depressed.




 * __Astrology and astronomy__ **
 * Many people believed in astrology the study of stars and planets, which they thought affected peoples lives.


 * The position of these stars is supposed to affect the persons character when they are born and the events that will happen in their lives.e.g romeo and Juliet had to die in other words people can not control their own lives but are controlled by the stars.

By Jacinta, Emma.D and Georgia.H