The knights use metals, chains or plate metal. The lowest rank of in Japanese feudalisms is the merchants and the lowest rank for European is the peasants. Even though in Japan the merchants are the lowest rank, they still get money from trading, they are also a very
Since the serf population had gotten ridiculously low, plantation owners were forced to start paying workers to tend the farms. (Gottfreid, pg. 55) The same effect was applied to factories, and the wages rose in attempt to get more workers. The poor were moving into deserted houses, and many began to live better. On farms that had become vacant, peasants took ownership and started making more money.
And as in return, the duty of peasants and villagers were to honor the samurai and pay taxes to them. However, situation in European feudalism were different
In document five, it is explained that wages are low from the factories because the factory workers are unattached parts of their family and only need to earn enough money to support a single person, not a whole family. This statement could be biased because of the speaker, an industrialist
The cotton economy would collapse, The tobacco crop would dry in the fields, and the rice would cease being profitable. Slaves were a key element in the livelihood of the south. One argument supporters made in defense of slavery was that the crop depended on cheap labor to be profitable. If slavery ceased to exist, plantation owners would be forced to hire from elsewhere in order to maintain their crops. Slaves were considered property, thus they worked for much cheaper than any other hired help would.
Merchants in China were considered low prestige according to Confucian ideals because: a. They were not important to Chinese society b. Money making was not an honorable occupation and did not parallel Confucian ideals c. They were immoral d. They were a small percentage of Chinese population 20. Which of the following was a Confucian belief? a.
After the rule of the Mongol over Russia, many of the free peasants had fallen into debt and were forced to work as laborers on the large estates owned by nobles. The Russian serfdom system expanded as more land was added to the empire. This similarity exists between these two systems of forced labors because as both the Spanish and Russian empire expanded, forced labor became necessary to maintain the empires’ economic status. The best social classes to demand labor from are the poorer social classes, in this case, the Russian peasants and Native Americans of the new world. Another similarity between Russian serfdom and the Spanish encomienda system is that both the serfs and the natives were born into their social class, thus born into the system of forced labor, although
The Vaisya were the farmers and merchants. The Sudra were the laborers of the caste system and the untouchables were made to do the labor that dealt with death and that was unclean. The Chinese social class system included the different classes of the landlord class, peasant class and the merchant class. The people who made up the landlord class had large amounts of land. The people of the peasant class made up most of China and these peasants had a
Peasants who did own their own lands did not have enough resources to keep some seed of their crop and continuously had to borrow seed from the rich, but without any property or material good they had to use their own freedom as collateral nd become debt slaves if they defaulted on their loans. The main conflicts between these two classes were on the basis of land
Medieval Towns During the Middle Ages most of the population in Europe lived in the countryside as farmers, because farming methods were inefficient and many people were needed to work on the land. As these methods improved, fewer people were needed, so more of them were able to leave their farms to practice another profession, trade, etc. As these people got together, they formed towns. The inhabitants of towns were free. They owed no obedience to the lord as farmers did, but had to pay taxes to the lord who owned the land were the town stood.