In the Germanic states in 1524-1526 the lords who oppressed and forced poverty among peasants cause a revolution that they thought never would happen. The peasants lutheran ideals and the terrible life lords forced on them cause them to revolt and a horrible series of wars and a body count up to the one-hundred thousands.
One of the main reasons the peasants decided to revolt against their lord was that they were oppressed and economically forced to be in poverty. They wished for stable payments for the labor, after a while they were fed up with the inequality which made them revolt, this is a part of the reasons. In document 4 the article the peasants made called the, Twelve Articles, proved that the peasants longed for wealth, in document 4 it talks about how it was all lies and it was the work of the devil. In document 7, it talks about how the peasants targeted the
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“This rebellion has been undertaken to repress the princes and the nobility and has its ultimate source in Lutheran teaching, for the peasants relate the majority of their demands to the Word of God, the Gospel, and brotherly love.” (Doc. 1) This article sourced from the Chancellor of Bavaria shows how the peasant's view of lutheranism has sparked the revolt. Even in document 3 the Peasant Parliament of Swabia says that christ is the emperor, meaning that he controls everything and the actions they are committing is in is name again reveals a source for their outrage against the wealthy. “It is clear that the assertions they made in their Twelve Articles were nothing but lies presented under the name of the Gospel.” (Martin Luther, Doc. 4) In document 5 even, it says how the peasants lutheran beliefs say everyone are brothers and sister and that the rich should share with the poor, and the extremist thought of this belief could spark a tremendous revolt such as this
The French Revolution was a drastic time for the people of France. In 1789, the majority of people were living in poverty and dealing with terrible conditions. People were split into three estates: the first, second, and third, the first being the wealthiest. Political, economic, and social situations were what contributed to people’s desire for change. The three main, or biggest causes of the French Revolution, were taxes, inequality, and lack of reform.
In German nobleman Christoffel von Lichtenstein’s legal plea for leniency to Count Wilhelm von Henneberg on August 24, 1525, German peasants’ cruelty and estranged behavior is apparent. From Lichtenstein’s perspective and being a nobleman most anything the peasants did came out as evil and rebellious. He goes to say that even though he had grown up with peasants’ parents, and was a very old age, this held nothing with the peasants and that they went on to force him into signing an allegiance to them. In the last year that would experience the terrible rebellions committed by the peasants, most of them in southern Germany, Emperor Charles V and the formal assembly of imperial councilors and officials advising Emperor Charles V came to the
In Haiti, back in 1791 to 1803 the Haitian revolution started. Slaves population have no liberty or property. They faced a lot of unfair deals that the society confirmed. Even though many of them died of plantation, the ratio of enslaves people to free people is still too high to estimate. The high death rate made people in Haiti to ship more slaves from Africa.
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a transition of Western Europe, when a series of inspiring historical events took place, such as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the discovery of new world, and the emergence of nation-state. However, what existed in the same period were social impoverishment caused by economic development, political chaos caused by the rise of nation-state, and the religious conflict caused by the Reformation. The life of civilians was pushed to edge by the infertility of land and famine because of the climatic change. People believed that these disasters were the sabotage of devil and his servants, who used thunder, hail, frost, storm, flood, plague, pests to impair the will of God and brought
The opposition Luther took against the Church soon had an instant impact on peasants. Individuals began to form opinions on both political and religious fields, but they had failed to interpret the beliefs of Luther correctly.
One great example is the German revolution, which
The French, Haitian, and American Revolutions were all sparked from the minds of the colonists, slaves, or lower classes who were treated with inequality by their own governments. In each location, there was a noticeable trend of mistreatment between government and people. In Haiti, slaves brought over by the French who captured the island, and forced them into brutal labor in what was the most valuable and wealthy are at the time. The government and leadership in France was corrupt as they were in much debt. King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived in Versailles far from the other forms of government, abusing the country wealth.
Back then, the vassal vowed to serve their lord. One of the agreements the lord and the vassal agreed on was that if the lord was to hold the land down, the peasants would pay there taxes. The vassal vowed to also fight by the lord's side in exchange for protection to the vassal. If the lord was disrespected or felt like the peasant was being disloyal to him the result would be
The Serbian Revolution lasted for 13 years during 1804 to the year 1835. The revolution was both a national and social revolution which resulted in Serbia 's departure from the Ottoman empire as well as the forming of its own constitutional monarchy. The revolution was inspired by the French revolution. A cause of the revolution was the rise of poetry and literature which inspired a renaissance. Throughout the Ottoman empires reign, works or literature was composed and passed through which focused on the glorious history of Serbia before the Ottoman rule.
As Huppert reports, peasant rebellions were largely common and although many weren’t successful, they called for change and elicited fear in the city folk when they became violent. These classes also hold significance because it essentially created the modern industrial
Although many innocent people died, I agree with the French peasants turn of action to revolt against the Add to dictionary. Dickens also endorses this movement, as he was very poor growing up. The nobles were so selfish and self-involved that they never understood or heard the suffering or pain of peasants. The few nobles who escaped the revolution were clueless to why the peasants revolted. In chap.24 in Book The Second, there is a passage that proves this. "
Peasants were forced to do the dirty work. They did anything and everything that needed to be done , from planting and harvesting, to trimming the king's lawn. Most of the things they did were for free or very little. They struggled to
There have been countless revolutions, but in this research paper we will only be dealing with the causes of the French, Russian and Chinese Revolutions and the similarities between their causes. Before starting, it is pertinent to define what a revolution is and what causes revolutions. The word revolution has different meanings depending on the context it is used in. It can have any one or all three meanings at the same time: • the overthrow or repudiation of a regime or political system by the governed • (in Marxist theory) the violent and historically necessary transition from one system of production in a society to the next, as from feudalism to capitalism • A far-reaching and drastic change, esp.
Social instability was a great struggle within Europe. The lack of social strength within the public led the Hundred Years War, by bringing forth the tragic past of the great famine, revolts, violence, and unrest between various individuals that caused a sense of disunity and lack of control. In time, this social turmoil migrated to the monarchs, Philip VI of Gascony and King Edward III and caused disagreements on ideas and personality confrontation, which triggered distress. This social upheaval from past tragedies instigated the need for plunder and territorial gain and the need to follow the rulers. However, the main causes of the outbreak evolved from territorial, successional, and social disputes.
Power in The French Revolution The French Revolution of 1789 is a prime example of power play. The social structure of France, left over 27 million people living a grim life. They started to question why they were living so drastically different from the Nobles and the Clergy. The Revolution of France shows the strength of oppressed citizens banding together to overthrow incompetent leaders, using ideas and numbers.