devastated Western Europe it also had many benefits such as higher wages for peasants‚ job opportunities for women‚ and innovations in the work place. One of the benefits of the Black Death was higher wages for peasants that worked on the land. According to John Kelly in his book‚ “Due to the shortage of workers all labor became very valuable and in-demand.” (The Great Mortality) Since the plague killed so many peasants‚ there
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Cathedrals During the medieval time period‚ peasants were affected by Gothic art‚ architecture‚ and music‚ because many peasants were illiterate. They could only learn about God’s word by symbols and hearing music. Also‚ during the medieval time period‚ peasants were not allowed to own a Bible‚ so they couldn’t learn by reading the bible even if they knew how to read. Cathedrals during this time period had many symbols that showed Christ through the symbols. Some ways were through music‚ architecture
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The Role of Agriculture in the Middle Ages In the middle ages the peasants of the manor labored in the fields and produced the crops. They had a system that worked for them‚ but it was not sufficient enough and they needed to find a way to produce more crops more efficiently. They used a system call the open field system which allowed a number of households to work on a single field. They did not fence in the property which allowed each family to take turns working the field. Around 1000A.D
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Do you think Peter Stolypin was the Tsar’s last hope? The 1905 Revolution was the build up of the dissatisfaction of Russia’s people with the government. Tsar Nicholas II had turned to key individuals such as Peter Stolypin to save the Tsarist regime. Stolypin‚ Russian Prime Minister from 1906 – 1911‚ had addressed a number of problems which threatened Tsarism by appeasing opposition and therefore putting down revolutionary attitudes. His reforms certainly did help gain back some of the Tsar’s
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life for the peasant communities. In the beginning those communities were hopeful that Mao’s vision for change would improve the peoples ability to feed and support their families by giving them land through the land reform‚ as well as healthcare‚ education and housing. The people were able to take control of their lives in order to achieve sustainability. By these events the peasants saw they would benefit from Maoism and therefore supported the communistic regime. Soon after the peasants quickly realized
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everyday life hard for the peasants. Multiple trials and errors by the Provisional Government helped secure left wing Lenin’s power. The Provisional Government was the interim government created after the fall of the russian autocracy. A major failure of the Provisional Government was that they allowed russia to remain in World War One when they knew the economic damages it was causing in the country. Due to the war there was inflation and food shortages which made the peasants really hungry and angry
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Before underlining the differences in economic growth and treatment of labour between capitalism and the earlier feudal system‚ it is necessary to understand the meaning of capitalism and feudalism separately. The Wealth of nations (1776) is a book‚ written by the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (1723-1790) in which he describes the nature of capitalism. (CN‚ 2010) The word “Capitalism” is derived from capital and the word capital itself deriving from the Latin word caput‚ meaning head as in a head
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To a certain extent Stalin did meet‚ in places‚ the overly optimistic aims for the Five Year Plans yet this was to be at the cost of millions of lives and the livelihoods of many Russian peasants who were to be ruthlessly killed‚ extradited or simply stripped of their land and possessions. The success of the Five Year Plans can be judged upon the entry of Russia into the Second World War for this was to be the first big test of the newly industrialised state on the world stage. Stalin had aimed to
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Nicholas was a weak and incompetent ruler. He allowed himself to be influenced by people who did not want any changes to take place in Russia. In Russia there were huge differences between the rich and the poor. About four-fifths of the population were peasants many of whom could not read or write. In the towns workers were squashed into very poor accommodation. The Tsars autocracy was very badly organized and caused many conflicts between the people and the Russian government. It had been like this for
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What in your view is the short-term impact of collectivisation on Soviet society at the time? In my view there are a number of significant impacts of collectivisation which were the famine‚ elimination of the kulaks and successful creation of collective farms‚ I believe these made major impact because of their scope and pace which they occurred. One of the short-term impacts of collectivisation on soviet society was the famine‚ which killed millions in the major grain producing areas of the
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