symbol of royal power‚ it housed members of the royal family and others close to them for example advisers‚ and this is the reason that the peasants attacked it in 1381. Thomas if Walsinghams states that the peasants “burned down houses and attacked the Tower of London” where they demanded to the king to give them the archbishop of Sudbury and others who the peasants thought of as traitors‚ and the king simply agreed knowing that he would be killed if he did not hand them over.
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Middle Ages‚ a time of both development and problems. Some of these problems were causes of the plague. The Black Death has changed Europe economically by causing people to pay for religious services‚ making nobles pay higher wages to peasants and serfs and helping peasants gain money. Socially‚ the Black Death caused the downfall of feudalism and created discrimination amongst certain groups of people. Overall‚ the Black Death was an event that altered Europe. Before the Black Death‚ Europe was experiencing
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improved to levels of in between twenty and forty percent. Overall‚ one may assume that by the time of the French Revolution approximately half of the French men could read and write – in a country in which over eighty percent of the population were peasants. This is a remarkable increase in literacy in a period of one hundred years.
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inequalities of the rich and the poor * Rich and Poor vs. Aristocrats and Peasants * Peasant = is an economic role; free; make living off of farming * Peasants v Farmers: Farmers grow to sell (business) while peasants grow crops to live and to eat w. families… not to sell (known today as subsistence farming; just enough to get by) * Hesiod: Writes poem called “Works + Days” aka how to run your farm * Peasant farmers live in the world of “limited goods”….. no plans for life‚ stay home
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The French revolution was the result of many problems concerning the unfair treatment of the middle class and peasants (the 3rd Estate). The 3rd Estate made up 97% of the total population of France‚ and yet they only counted as one third of the total votes. The lower class was forced to pay heavy tailles‚ while the upper class paid minimal. The price of bread had also risen above the peoples’ ability to pay. These three problems led to a huge revolution that would change the shape of France forever
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Medieval people - be they village peasants or towns people - believed that God‚ Heaven and Hell all existed. From the very earliest of ages‚ the people were taught that the only way they could get to Heaven was if the Roman Catholic Church let them. Everybody would have been terrified of Hell and the people would have been told of the sheer horrors awaiting for them in Hell in the weekly services they attended. The control the Church had over the people was total. Peasants worked for free on Church land
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third estate and that is what caused the French Revolution. The Third estate was composed of the peasants‚ the workers and the bourgeoisie; unlike the other segments of the Third Estate‚ the bourgeoisie was able to communicate its grievances to the public during the period after the French Revolution: 1789-1799. The peasants in the French Revolution had many un-communicated complaints. The peasants felt they were being taxed too heavily. This was true because the government could not tax the clergy
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wages began to rise because workers had more to barter for. This forced landlords to pay more for labor‚ while the price of everything else was decreasing. Following that was the decline in the rank of landlords and increase of the peasants’ social status. In 1358‚ a peasant revolt broke out in northern France. However‚ this revolt was not successful. Something similar happened in England‚ in 1381‚ a
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socialist-communist orientation of the Central Luzon peasants led to a more militant peasant and labor movement. * Jose de Leon‚ Sr.‚ millionaire hacendero of Pampanga has been murder. * December 8‚ 1941 war came to the Philippines. The retreat of the USAFFE to Bataan and the eventual collapse of Filipino-American arms was followed by a short period of confusion on the municipal level. * The realities of war imposed certain degree of discipline on the peasants‚ a necessity for a unified movement:
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(Wickham‚ Pg. 305). A peasant society is defined as being much less rigid in terms of the owner of the land‚ which allows for greater autonomy for the masses‚ and a more equal distribution of wealth in contrast to the feudal system‚ but also provides a lesser amount of security
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