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Poor Jobs
The men did farm work although they got paid very little. Women were mostly house maids and were kept very busy, others also helped their husbands do work on the farm, bake bread or brewed beer.The poor sometimes had to beg and pretend to be disabled in order to get food and money.

Rich Jobs Rich women in Tudor times were sometimes ladies in waiting and helped very important peiple like the Queen,men coulkd also do these jobs which meant choosing what xshje wore or doing her dutys. some men were in the army fighting in battles, working with the church or writiung books on diffrent topics.

What did the Tudors live in?
The rich lived in brick houses with big glass windows abd wooden beams which were ofen painted black or white.The poor lived in tiny wooden houses with normsally only one room. Most Tudors lived in London, but lived in very narrow streets (poor people.) the rich houses have been known to be made out of wattle and daub which were made from sticks covered in a mixture of cow poo, pigs blood and mud also some straw.

What was life like in Tudor times for the rich?
The poor and rich were divided.They could afford bigger homes,better furniture and finer clothes.

They didn`t do much work.They enjoyed boardgames,such as chess,backgamman and card games.

What was life like in Tudor times for the poor?
It was very harsh. They had to work hard in order to survive. Many of the poor lived in villages doing farm work. They worked six days a week and only had very short holidays. They also had Holy Days off.

What did the rich people wear?<
br /> Durning tudor times poor people wore simple loose fitting cloth. Most girls wore a dress of wool that went down to the ground. They often wore a apron

over the dress and a cloth bonit on thier heads. poor children clothing was very different to rich

children they wore dresses the poor didn`t.

what did the Tudors eat?

The rich tudors ate toast,beef,powder(salted)veal leg of muton with "galladine sauce" turkey bolted capon,hen boiled with leak,partridge pheasent,larks,qaul`s snipe, woodcock,salmon,sole,turbot,and whiting.

Tudor Sports

Tudor Football

One Tudor writer described Tudor football,football is more a fightthen a game....sometimes thier neaks are broken,sometimes thier backs,sbometimes thier legs....football encourages envy and hated ....sometimes fighting,murder and a great loss of blood.In Tudor football they could pick,throw and kick the ball many people got killed.

Tudor refuries

The Tudors had no refuries in some games for example football and very often they ended up with broken bones.

Tudor Horse events

They hunted on horse's backs.They might have done horse races.

Tudor Sporting Rules

Tudors had difrent rules then us.Lots of peoplegot hurt in sport in Tudor time some Tudors sports were really dangerous.

Tudor Sports we do not have

Tudor sports that they had and we dont have now are bear baiting,cock fighting,hawking and jousting.

Tudor Table Sports

The Tudors didnt have table sports beacause they werent invented.They were invented many years later.

Tudor Wrestling

The Tudors wrestled.Henry VII loved to wrestle.Through most of the tudor times they did not dodge the punches! Henry VIII was not the best wrestler but he thought he was the best.

MUSIC

There were a lot of instruments including the harp which was 30 inches long, a fiddle played with a bow, a rebec which is a early violin a dullimer, the hurdy Gurdy and the viol.Ressiance musical instruments used in various combanations to create music. The Tudor string instruments included some from the Medival period toghether with those which emerged during the period of the Tudorsthere were many string instruments ,these were played by being ethier plucked or bowed.Music was a geat importance in both secular and sacred life. Musicians were supported by both church,state and royal arristocratic courts. Both the rich and poor enjoyed church music particually in England. Elizabethan church music was beautiful many of the Tudor composers composed music for the court and for the church. Tudor composers used two distinctive styles of music Madrigal and Ayre this originated from the French word Aria. This type of Tudor church music was a varient of the musical song form and used as the name of the local instrumental musical.

FOOTBALL

Football was played differently than it is today.There were no set numbers of players so lots of people played.The goal posts were placed 1 mile apart and players could kick throw or pick up the ball in attempt to put the ball in the opponents goal.

TENNIS Tennis is one of the oldest raquet sports. During the Tudor times, it was played indoors in a large room with a net. Like Tennis today players had to hit the ball over the net. However, in Tudor times the ball bounce of the walls and points were scored by hitting the ball in the net high up in the wall. HUNTING Only the rich were allowed to hunt deer. Yeoman Farmers could hunt foxes but the poor were only allowed to hunt hares and rabbits. child clothing Clothing during madieval times were worn to show the status of the wearer. The children from the rich wore clothes made from material shot through gold material thread or the clot of silver. poor children wore simple,loose fitting clotes made from wooden cloth.

Rich child jewellery Rich children wore necklaces,bracletsand sometimes earings. These were made of gold and silver. child birthdays they actually didnt even celebrate it, they just ate nice food on that day.But they did celebrate their patron saint day which was basically a bit like their birthday. playtime they played with a range of wooden gifts,wooden animals,wooden puzzles.they played with pretend kitchens that included spoons, pans,knives,forks and plates.played football with a pig bladder. school and work

if king Edward needed a beating then someone else would get beat for him.Little girls wouldn't go to school they stayed home and helped their mums.

spare time The turdors mainly relaxed at home with their family during their free time.The women would look after their children and their beauty,while the men especially the rich.Vistited each other or took strolls around their vast estatates.The poor stayed at home when not working on the farm. Poor or rich There were alot more poor than rich because it was hard to get a job that erns alot of money.