Tudor London can be described as a ___prosperous, bustling______ city during the Tudor dynasty. In fact, the population increased from ___75,000 ___ inhabitants with Henry VII to ____200,000_______ at the end of the 16th century.

The Tudor monarchs had a royal residence in London called ____Whitehall Palaceand _____ and another in the countryside,called ____Hampton court ___, after __Cardinal Wolseygave______ gave it to Henry VIII.These Tudor kings and queens used what are now famous parks , such as ________Hyde Park or St. James's Park_____, as Royal hunting forests.

Not many Tudor buildings survive today, mostly because of _____The Great Fire______, which happened in ___1666______. Besides, , the 13 religious houses in London were _____converted for private use______ or ___pulled down for building materials__ after the Dissolution of the monasteries, which was ______Henry VIII's most decisive step against the power of the church in 1538.

Apart from that, the theatres were banned from the city by ____the city authorities or guilds___ because _____plays wasted workmen's time ____. Then, they were built in ________the Southwark____, where now a reconstruction of the _____Globe____ can be visited to learn about Tudor theatre.

At that time, London's financial rival was the city of ______Amsterdam____, and to be able to compete with it , the ____international exchange______ was created in ____1566____.

So, all in all, and because of many other events and facts, we can say that both London and England were ____powerful________.