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Yes, 90% of the people were poor and peasants. They had no way to change their lives. No schools, no training, they couldn't read or write. All of this is what can change a life and they had no way out. Most people died before they saw 40 so they really didn't have long lives. They were taxed at high rates and the system needed more people on the bottom than the top.
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∙ 14y agoThere was no way to improve themselves. No schools, no training, no ability to read or write. When people lack these things they aren't able to move into a better way to live. The plague did allow some to move into better situations but that was because there was a void left by the dead. Those that were smart enough took advantage of it. People didn't live as long they do today as well. They were lucky to live to 40, but by 20 many were dead from disease, wars, accidents, or murder.
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What do you call the poor in a medieval village?
Peasants, commoners, villein, farmer, peon, or slave. It depends on what work they did.
How is a Medieval Lord important to Medieval society?
Medieval Lords were important to society because they employed poor peasants. They also charged tax for the land which people lived on so they could receive money. They were also important to the King as he made them Lords. They provided jobs and homes for many poor people.
What currency did medieval peasants have?
If they had any coins at all (there was no paper money) medieval peasants would have the coins of the realm in which they lived. There were many different realms in medieval Europe.
Were medieval millers peasants?
yes
What are the titles in Medieval Times?
knights and peasants
How did medieval queens treat the peasants?
Like peasants. They were queens and the peasants were poor people who worked the land or made the things that were needed.
What do you call the poor in a medieval village?
Peasants, commoners, villein, farmer, peon, or slave. It depends on what work they did.
Why were many of peasants bone-joints damaged from medieval times?
because of hard physical labor and sometimes poor nutrition.
What are facts about Medieval Education?
not many peoplegot tutered only the rich did not the poor peasants this is because they couldnt afffrod it Zainub
Shelter for peasants?
What work did the peasants do in medieval times
Can you make a sentence using presided over by?
In medieval Europe poor peasants worked the land, presided over by rich nobles.
What were the relationships like between the medieval peasants and medieval knights?
The relationship between the knight and his peasants is the manorial system.
Did the Queens in the Medieval ages do work like peasants did?
Never. That is what peasants were for.
How is a Medieval Lord important to Medieval society?
Medieval Lords were important to society because they employed poor peasants. They also charged tax for the land which people lived on so they could receive money. They were also important to the King as he made them Lords. They provided jobs and homes for many poor people.
Were peasants in the middle ages generally poor?
Most medieval peasants were poor. In fact, most were serfs, who could not own land and were not allowed to move away from the manors on which they lived. A few peasants were independent farmers who held their own land, and some of these were referred to by contemporary writers as wealthy. They were, of course only wealthy relative to other peasants, and had very little wealth compared to the lords.
What currency did medieval peasants have?
If they had any coins at all (there was no paper money) medieval peasants would have the coins of the realm in which they lived. There were many different realms in medieval Europe.
What did medieval peasants do?
they farmed land
