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Why did the Elizabethans believe social class and status were important?
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They believed that a strong class system was necessary for progress.
They believed in the Bible and took its rules and restrictions literally.
They believed in the great chain of being, which dictated social roles.
They were strongly loyal to their king and all the great noble bloodlines.
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They believed in Aristotle's scale of nature, which ordered human society.
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a. They believed that a strong class system was necessary for progress.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Elizabethans were deeply invested in the social class structure, that placed the monarch at the top and laborers at the bottom. Since the entire society was built around this it was a very sound way of controlling the population.

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