Flashcard set for GCSE History Elizabethan England 1558-88
| Front | Who were privateers? |
| Back | Sailors on privately owned warships who attacked Spanish shipping |
| Front | Who were professionals? |
| Back | Lawyers, doctors and clergymen |
| Front | How did bad harvests cause poverty? |
| Back | (in 1562, 1565, 1573 and 1586) hit subsistence farmers (those who ate what they grew), reduced the food supply and drove up prices |