This essay seeks to highlight these key features and explain how they impacted on the transition from a Feudal society to a different type of society – a Capitalist society. After the dissolution of the Roman Empire which concluded the Dark Ages, a ‘Feudal Society’ came into formation. This type of society was based on the ownership of land and feudal social classes reflected how much land people owned. Royalty, like Kings and Queens were in the highest class who were understood to be very powerful and had a lot of money. These very wealthy men and women owned most of the land in the kingdom.
Stolypin believed that the encouragement of a class such as the Kulaks would make them hostile to further change therefore more conservative and loyal to the Tsar as the Tsar had made them wealthy. Furthermore, peasants made up 85% of the population of Russia and a majority relied on agriculture for their income. Reforms that would please the ‘dark masses’ would strengthen the tsarist regime. Another reason for reforming agriculture was to oppress peasant unrest. In Poltava and Kharkov provinces, mass impoverishment of the peasants, which was exacerbated by the poor harvests of 1901 led to 40,000 peasants took part in an uprising where they also ransacked 150 landlord properties.
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
Others enjoyed their daily life on their manors. The peasants, including serfs, freeman and villeins spent their daily life on a manor or village. Daily Life of Medieval Nobles and Lords in the Middle Ages The Daily Life of Medieval Nobles and Lords in the Middle Ages. Middle Ages Feudalism was based on the exchange of land for military service. King William the Conqueror used the concept of feudalism to reward his Norman supporters with English lands for their help in the conquest of England.
These systems were pretty advanced and modern compared to civilization’s prior. Last, both civilizations were successful with military organization. Both empires trained peasant boys from the time they were teenagers, which created large armies. The Incas eventually replaced their peasant army with an army of professional officers, while the
New Spain would be under direction of the mother country Spain. Its economy would strive to gain profit and make Spain richer and stronger by its colonial system. The economy was based on agriculture, ranching, mining, industry, and commerce. The majority of labor that would go into doing these jobs would be from the indigenous people. Most indigenous people were treated unfairly or poorly and worked long, hard hours.
I will show that when looking at trade and economics within the towns and cities we can see the transformation of society within the Middle Ages. The growth of towns and cities meant an increase of existing towns and the new establishment of the new towns and cities. Between the Norman Conquest and the 1300s more than one hundred and twenty five towns were founded in England. Fairs and Markets increased during the medieval England and it became a type of business, a franchise was needed in order for a market of a fair to exist. A franchise of fair or market could only be exercised by right of a grant from the crown or by the authority of parliament.
First, the civil wars, there were always disagreements and the people of this empire loved fighting. So, war was above reasoning and agreements. Another main reason that helped with their fall was that the empire was too big for them to handle. They conquered most of Western Europe but could not keep up with it all. Military generals took advantage of this and took control of certain parts.
All the way through the 1890’s and the early years of the 1900’s a storm was brewing among the people of Russia. A majority of the people wanted to reform the political system by either changing it completely or modifying it to suit. This is why a revolution occurred in 1905. The political system in Russian was an autocracy whereby the Tsar, the divine ruler, owned and controlled absolutely everything in the country. Many of the people looked up to the Tsar like a father, not because he was inspirational or because he was exceptional but because 85% of the country, the Peasants were uneducated and so were very easily controlled and influenced.
This system was a very good system and worked well because everyone was happy with what they got in return. Domesday Book and Taxes William and his lords came up with the idea to create a book with all the details of peoples taxes. The book was called the ‘Domesday Book’. He sent officials everywhere to record how much money people had and owed then reported back to William with the book so he had a clear idea of tax and money situations Castles Castles were built to protect William and his soldiers. Building castles helped his control over England because they reminded people who was in charge and it intimidated some people as they were scared to approach him.