The Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922 and was renamed as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Byelorussian SSR). Belarus lost almost half of its territory to Poland after the PolishâSoviet War of 1919â1921.
Rich Tudors ate vast amounts of meat. However they rarely ate vegetables. Rich people were not necessarily well fed because they ate too few vegetables. Poor people ate plenty of vegetables because they had no choice! Vegetables were cheap but meat was a luxury. Tudor vegetables included cabbages, onions, cauliflower, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce, spinach and turnips.
There were many beggars and vagabonds due especially to the dissolution of religious houses by Henry VIII (3). The average life expectancy of an English person was about forty years (5). Things started to improve, however, after Elizabeth succeeded. Slowly, a unique and prosperous economy emerged. The most important commodity in the English economy was woollen cloth (3). Miniature portraitures just started to flourish in the Elizabethan Age, due, in part, to the efforts of Nicholas Hilliard (7). These were popular with the middle and upper classes (7).