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English society was based on freedom in contrast of equality.
-You can clearly see this in some of Shakespeare’s plays.
-Shakespeare often focused on women who were independent and self-reliant, which was very uncommon in the patriarchal society were the elite was made of men.

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-Martin Luther
- Reformation 1536

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-Young boys were sent to petty school, where the they learned to write and read English.
-The top scoring students were sent to a Latin and grammar school.
-Girls from wealthy families were sometimes home schooled, and they were taught different languages and also music and dance.
-The biggest difference in the Elizabethan era was that girls weren’t allowed to attend university.

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- Humanism grew among the people, where language and education was highly focused on.
- An example of humanism is Johannes Gutenberg's movable metal type letters that made it possible to print an infinite variety of texts, which meant that far above most people could read.

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- Discoveries in science, astronomy and geography.
- Christopher Columbus' discovery of America in 1492.
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
- Seamen like Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh and Thomas Cavendish went to explore the american east coast, West Indies and South America.
- British East India Company founded i 1600.

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- Elizabethans thought of the universe as being geocentric (Earth center of the world)
-Order and chaos
-Theocentrically
- Chain of Being (God/macrocosmos↑ vs microcosmos↓)
-Belief in fate

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- Humanism is the ideology
- Man was focus instead of God.
- Love for the present instead of focusing on death.
- Man can create his own destiny.
- Famous thinker: Thomas More (1478-1535) known for his work 'Utopia' (1516).
- Book one criticizes English society for its corruption, religious intolerance and exploitation of people.
- Book two explains an ideal socialist society called Utopia.
- Utopia has religious tolerance, no private property and no money economy.