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Most of the population are peasants, subsistence farmers who make almost all of their own food, clothing, tools, and housing. Most of their diet consists of porridge, whole-grain stews, or unleavened bread, with a little bit of fish and eggs for protein; meat is a luxury typically only available after a successful hunt or just after the fall slaughter. Women spend many hours each day carding, spinning, and weaving the wool to clothe their family - a single cloak is the product of many weeks of dedicated work. In a good year a family makes just enough excess to trade for those necessities they can't make (metal tools, pottery, and salt) and to pay taxes in kind to their king or lord. Taxes are typically assessed on the spot whenever a lord or his agents pass through, and usually amount to whatever the market will bear, and often beyond. Peasants in border regions often end up paying taxes to two or more competing lords. In more populated areas farm families group together into villages to pool expensive resources like horses, oxen, or fishing boats, but lone farmsteads are common everywhere. As a general rule villages in the north tend to be communal while those in the Mediterranean regions are modeled after the old Roman estates, with one dominant land-owning family and a host of subordinate client tenants.
Slavery is also really common, and wherever anyone was you were always surrounded by enemies.
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