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Trade stimulated the growth of towns and cities, and produced many jobs in manufacturing, commerce, banking, and transportation. All of these made it possible for peasants to try to be more prosperous off the farms. This meant that there was a more or less steady movement of serfs away from the manors. When disasters such as the Black Death made things difficult for people, the demand for peasants reversed the trend among them to move to cities for a while, but it also undermined the feudal system further, and did not last very long.

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