Sentences with phrase «peasant populations»

During the Middle Ages, a segment of the peasant population in Europe and Great Britain was singled out for executions on a massive scale.

All underscore the incredible disparity between the glittering lives of the Romanovs and the desperately impoverished ones of the peasant population.

Generous excerpts from letters, diaries, memoirs, and more are seamlessly interspersed throughout the narrative and underscore the stark disparity between the glittering lives of the Romanovs and the desperately impoverished ones of the peasant population.

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That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

A foe of Christianity in the second century ridiculed this religion because it attracted «the very dregs of the population, peasants, mechanics, beggars, and slaves.»

There was, however, only sporadic concern for formal education for the artisans, trades people, laborers, and peasants, who made up the majority of the population.

England had a population of perhaps three and a half million people, nine - tenths of whom were peasants of whom two - fifths were unfree (villeins, serfs, bonded) and three - fifths free (rustics, cottagers, sokemen).

The peasants who form the majority of the population generally have little to no grip on politics at the national level.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

A population of 350,000 ignorant, ill - nourished peasants, called carusi, labor in the mines [see photograph].

I would say the survivors are hardly going to choose a peasant culture, given they would have global technological infrastructure they could borrow, and such a small population is not going to cause environmental problems.

For most of the history of the world, the vast majority of the population, from peasants and serfs to factory workers on up, toiled countless hours and lived like virtual slaves.