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- God was at the top of the universal or cosmological hierarchy.
- Corresponding to the hierarchy in heaven we finde an order or hierarchy of the same kind on each.
- Among men, in social life, we find the following hierarchy:

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- The Puritans emigrated to the new-found world of America, either because of persecution or because they were dissatisfied with the church affairs at home.
- When London became a metropolitan market, they started needing new trading routes and partners. Therefore this is the period of discoveries and geographical expansion.
- Trading companies were established in what later became colonies. The african colonies developed the slave trade, and the East India company set up silk, cotton, china and carpet factories.

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- Before Shakespeare's time theatre was performed in churches by the clergy - there were no public theatres
- The religious theatre became illegal, because of The Reformation, so some noblemen maintained a company of actors to travel around the country to perform for entertainment at parties or other occasions
- The actors would travel from town to town to set up a stage in an inn's courtyard - some time after the madness of escaping the authorities, the theatre companies started building theatres outside the city limits

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- The Elizabethan world picture was a simplified version of how the Middle Ages thought the Greek philosopher Aristotle had imagined the universe.

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- The reformation in England took place mainly for political reasons.
- Henry VIII broke with the pope, because he could not get his way with him
- Under Elizabeth I the Anglican Church confirmed its "middle of the road" position in European church life.

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- Bigger production for the country, because of the capitalist farming
- Farmland was enclosed, and the people who had rented the land were closed out
- Peasants either became homeless vagabonds tried to find jobs in the city