During this time they also ate Fruits and Vegetables. The vegetables that were available to them were: turnips, parsnips, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, cabbage, onions, leeks, spinach, radishes, garlic, and skirret. Some of the fruits they ate were: apples, pears, plums, cherries, lemons, raspberries, blackberries, melons, and strawberries. Expensive fruits, like peaches, oranges and pomegranates, were eaten only by the rich. …show more content…
A social class is determined by fame, wealth, skills, and birth. One can change rank through recognition, increase or decrease in wealth, or marriage. The monarch was basically kings and queens, During this era the ruler was Queen Elizabeth I. During this Era, Nobility was the smallest of the social classes, There were only 50 noble families. Nobles are people that own land of property. They held the manor outright or were freeholders. Yeomanry were the middle class they saved enough to live comfortably. Laborers were the poor they worked everyday to make ends