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    Peasants Riots

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    Should the riots by the peasants of the early modern era resemble a revolutionary movement to reorder society? During the early modern era in Europe‚ nobles treated the peasants with little to no respect and thought that the peasants would obliged to whatever they commanded. Peasants began to realize that they needed to stand up against the nobles and government in order to change their role. Peasant movements became revolutionary by going through with the idea of taking a stand and doing everything

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    Peasants were at the bottom of the Feudal system and had to obey their local lord to whom they had sworn an oath of obedience on the Bible. Because they had sworn an oath to their lord‚ it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke. The one thing the peasant had to do in Medieval Europe was to pay out money in taxes or rent.They had to pay rent for his land to his lord; he had to pay a tax to the church called a tithe. This was a tax on all of the farm produce he had produced

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    Araspreet Kaur February 19‚ 2013 Mr. Sakowich Period 7 Medieval Churches The Medieval Church had a large role in the Middle Ages and everyone’s daily life revolved around the church. In the Middle Ages‚ when there was a weakened government‚ the church rises in power and becomes more of a political role. The church had all control over the people. Peasants worked for no pay on the church land. Also‚ the church didn’t pay any taxes which saved them a lot of money making them

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    Peasant’s Revolt and The Decline of Serfdom | Why did the Peasants’ Revolt Occur? Did the insurgents hope to abolish serfdom? How and why did serfdom decline and eventually disappear in England‚ notwithstanding the failure of the 1381 uprising and other influences of lower class protest against social inequality and injustice? | Naomi Woods Student 297278812/22/2011 | The Peasants Revolt is one of the most well known revolts of Medieval England‚ the revolt began as a local revolt in Essex in May

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    was formed named Lutheranism. Between 1524 and 1526‚ German peasants began to revolt the Holy Roman Empire. The peasant revolts were caused by greed and wanting to get rid of serfdom and corrupt leaders in the Holy Roman Empire‚ and both positive and negative responses were seen. Most positive responses were seen by peasants while most negative responses were shown by some religious leaders and Holy Roman Empire leaders. Many peasants‚ seeing these revolts against the Holy Roman Empire‚ wanted

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    peasant farm

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    problems of a peasant farm in Danvers Pen‚ St. Thomas‚ Jamaica. LOCATION OF STUDY METHODOLOGY On February 3‚ at Danvers Pen‚ St Thomas‚ Jamaica data was recorded by the use of cameras‚ videos ‚ tape recorders‚ informal interviews and also by Jimmy Woolcock who also a lecture along with the works on the farm who gave information about the farm. Observation took place along the farm during the hours of 10:00 am – 1:00 pm on Mr. Mullings peasant farm.

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    PEASANT REVOLT DBQ This revolt lasted from 1524 till 1526‚ it began in the German states‚ and the main reason for the revolt was new Lutheran ideas that were beginning to go against the traditional Catholicism ideas. Documents 1‚4 and 5 give insight on the views those who were on the nobility side‚ Documents 2 and 3 give more specific details over the views of peasants and finally for Documents 7‚8 and 12 explain how the mainly how the revolt didn’t have much meaning behind it. Documents 1‚ 4

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    “Assess the view that the condition of the peasantry in Russia was transformed in the period from 1855 to 1964.” The conditions of the peasantry varied within the period 1855-1964 as the rulers had different ways of dealing with the peasants. There were times when the communists treated the urban working classes far worse than the tsars did such as during the rule of Stalin. On the other hand‚ there were also occasions when the tsars carried out policies that benefited working people such as reducing

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    Although peasants were at the bottom of the chain‚ they still gave things in turn for other things. Peasants gave labor in turn for land. Peasants were at the bottom of the rank and worked on farms to provide food for everyone in the manor. Most worked for a lord who let them have a bit of land to farm for themselves in turn for labor (Langley 8-9). Being in feudal society gave peasants things to help their family survive‚ although it was in small amounts. Some people might think that being a

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    Why did the peasants revolt in 1381? Background Information: The Black Death‚ which flooded through Europe between years 1348 and 1349‚ killed roughly half the population of England. Since peasants were usually quite poor and lived in tough conditions‚ many of them were wiped out completely during the Plague. This caused an increase in land but a shortage of labourers. Since the quantity of working class peasants dropped greatly‚ many survivors saw themselves differently. They thought the Lord

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