Elaborate dresses, lavish parties, palaces filled with gold and silver - these are just a few thoughts that come to mind when we hear the term “Elizabethan era”; However, there is more to this period than what we see. The Elizabethan era was an important time in the history of the United Kingdom. Spanning from 1558 to 1603, it was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The Elizabethan era, also known as the Elizabethan age or Elizabethan period, is considered the golden age of English history, with a fairly diverse public life, a rise in the fine arts and numerous advances in many technological and scientific fields. To begin with, the main subject of almost all historical accounts of the Elizabethan era was the lives of the nobles, "painting a pretty picture", but most people don't realize that there is always another side to every story . As might be expected, nobles and peasants led very different lives. Historical records show that "the Elizabethan period in England had daily life based on social order: the monarch was the highest rank, the nobility the second highest, the gentry the third, the merchants the fourth, the yeomanry the fifth and the workers the sixth. » (Elizabethan era). Many aspects of daily life between the nobles and lower classes varied. One of these aspects was education. The children of the nobility received a high-quality education from renowned scholars, while most other children of the lower classes did not even know how to write their own names. The type of education also differed between boys and girls of the nobility. Boys generally learned Latin, English, sometimes Greek, arithmetic and religion. Girls were taught by their mother or another female figure about housekeeping, caring for children, how to be a good...... middle of paper......iron York Stock. Flight. 1: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2007. 123-140. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. March 25, 2014. Alchin, Linda. “Elizabethan Food.” ELIZABETHANE FOOD. Np, and Web. March 15, 2014. Alchin, Linda. “Religion in Elizabethan England.” Religion in Elizabethan England. Np, and Web. March 23, 2014. “Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England.” » World Elizabethan Reference Library. Ed. Sonia G. Benson and Jennifer York Stock. Flight. 3: Primary sources. Detroit: UXL, 2007. 169-179. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Internet. March 25, 2014. “Elizabethan Era. » The lost colony. The Lost Colony, nd Web. March 15, 2014. Olsen, Kirstin. "Art." All Things Shakespeare An encyclopedia of the world of Shakespeare. 2002 ed. Flights. Volume 1 AL. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2002. “Science and Technology – Elizabethan Museum.” » Elizabethan Museum. Elizabethan Museum, nd Web. March 25. 2014.