Western Civilization I / Unit 14 WC1 1309 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tudor Order: Gentry, Gallows, and a Centralized Kingdom
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The idea
The Tudors allied with the gentry, local landowners with local power, and ruled through them. Official violence was staggering, the anchor says, citing about twenty thousand executions from fifteen eighty to sixteen ten, with whipping and branding to inspire terror. By mid-century England was a centralized kingdom.
In practice
The gentry as the crown's partner.
Where people slip
The execution count is the anchor's. Attribute it.
Your place on the trail
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