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What were medieval farmers like?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019
  • medieval Farmer's= no education
  • farmers=peasants
  • work for the lord
  • work with- weather proofing plants, sowing seeds, plow fields, water plants, splat manure, harvest, sell, tend animals
  • start working at young age, all year round
  • winter: tend dead crops, Summer: water, Spring: sowing, Fall: harvest
  • Bad weather, war, and drouts made job hard= famines
  • Famine= no crop's= poor people starve to death
  • wool= thread= farmers only clothes
  • for food the farmers wife killed family chickens
  • main work is for the lord, in front of his castle
  • to fertilize the dirty farmers used manure
  • followed the lord with government, religon, +language
  • transportation= horses (no access to tractors)
  • Religion was taken seriously -gods let crops grow
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