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    the Fujiwara. Japanese and European feudalism are similar because they both have peasants that work the land‚ nobles and royalty. However they differ in their social classes‚ religious influences and how long feudalism was used. Feudalism in both Europe and Japan was accepted by the mid 800s. The use of peasants was used in both places. The peasant’s main job would be to work the land and provide food. Peasants had to remain loyal to higher officials such as the nobles or land owners because

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    Loreen Jill Ramirez Catubay 12 September 2010 HSS1C.01 Miss. Erickson FRENCH REVOLUTION DBQ “The French Revolution.” What pops up in your head? Probably a plethora of ideas. Images of riots‚ nobles‚ monarchy and such. So many mistakes and so many achievements has come out of the French Revolution. Many failed policies‚ laws and many inspirational and influential ideas has come of the French Revolution. The important causes of the French Revolution has changed France. The French

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    agricultural experts Social / Ideological AIMS: Essential if capitalist peasants were to embrace socialism = industrialised society with urban public = conform to Marxist theory = replacing capitalist NEP – poor landless peasants form natural alliance. SUCCESSES: Targets were kept impossibly high‚ punishments for hoarding or failing to meet targets = incentive to work harder. Peasants reportedly went as far as looking through horse

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    strength at different times. In Lope de Vega’s Fuente Ovejuna‚ the peasant rebellion can be considered revolutionary as it ends

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    Feudalism is defined as a system of government and landownership. Feudalism arose because of a disagreement between Rollo‚ the head of a Viking army‚ and Charles the Simple‚ the king of France. Rollo had been looting a river valley for years‚ and Charles the Simple‚ with little power‚ did little about it. One day‚ Charles the Simple decided to make a deal with Rollo. The deal was Charles would give Rollo a piece of land in exchange for peace from his Viking army. More and more of these agreements

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    different things happening in the country. The empire is falling bit by bit due to the backward industry and bad leadership. Reasons that will be explained in this report for this bad situation are an inefficient and corrupt government‚ the conditions of peasants‚ the contrast between the rich and the poor‚ conditions of workers and threats from opposition groups. All of these things are destroying our beloved Russia bit by bit and I will explain how they are doing this later on in my report. The first problem

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    readers that these peasants are in physical hunger and are that desperate for food‚ showing that France isn’t in good shape. Once all the wine is gone all that is left over is the stains of the red wine on the street‚ the peoples hands‚ faces and feet. Dickens is foreshadowing the blood that will be left there in later years during the revolution. Like I stated before Dickens is showing the peasants hunger‚ but I think he is showing the physical hunger and the hunger the peasants have for justice

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    the idea of humanism. In a serious of paintings called The Harvesters‚ Bruegel depicts the idea of humanism as well. He accomplishes this by painting the peasants and nature with such attentive detail. Bruegel paints the peasants with great emotion‚ showing the struggles they endure throughout the different seasons. In addition‚ through The Peasant Wedding‚ Bruegel depicts the idea of humanism. He does

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    Despite facing opposition by the peasants who took violent actions and holding back grain which prevented collectivisation‚ Stalin was able to modernise agriculture from its backwardness. This was evident dekulakisation as well as boosting the grain production. By 1941‚ 98% of farms in rural

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    Land reform meant landlords lost their power and their land was given to the peasants. The CCP also decreased taxes. However the GMD kept the landlords in power and were brutal to the peasants that disagreed with them. Due to the factors above‚ the GMD lost even more support from the peasants‚ whilst the CCP gained more support. The support from the peasants meant that the CCP could increase the size of their army‚ contributing to its eventual

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