Why did the peasants act so strongly against their noble lords? What seems to be the principal motivations of their actions?
2006-08-21 09:20:41 · 4 answers · asked by bluenecklace 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Usually, a great majority of the lords took a lot of money and/or materials things (even crops and farm animals) for taxes, thus the peasants did not like them! The principal motivation: riches and wealth!
2006-08-21 09:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by Hammer 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's been a while since I studied this, but basically if you were a peasant it was pretty much the same as slavery. There was no way to improve your lot in life. It went on for generations. Another really demeaning custom was something that was not necessarily taking place in every town, but it happened often enough that it needed to be changed, and that was when the peasants' daughters were about to be married, that the lord of an estate had the right to have his way with them before they could be given away in marriage to someone else. Talk about spoiling the honeymoon. Yuck.
2006-08-21 11:03:29 · answer #2 · answered by Cookie777 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lord dependent upon the pheasants for taking care of his livestock, crops, manor/castle, oftened treated them like dirt. In return for years of service to their Lord they were often heavily taxed and treated more like slaves than producers of materials the lords and ladies used to stay fed and warm. He was to provide protection to them during invasions, that was the trade off.
2006-08-21 09:29:49 · answer #3 · answered by wag35 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Abuse.
The "noble" lords dished out a lot of it, and the peasants finally said "You know what, let's get medieval on their AZZ!"
2006-08-21 09:28:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋