1500: A land of villages

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Q1: Do you think it would have been easy to travel between villages in early Tudor times?

[Answer]

What was England like when Henry VII, the first of the Tudors, became king in 1485?

England was a land of just 3 million people (49 million today) and there were three sheep to every person!

England had no big cities, and no big army or navy, because wars had left it too poor.

Life was much as it had been for centuries. But that was about to change...