Wednesday, February 18, 2009

My role: Peasant farmer (hum)

My role for the middle ages is a peasant farmer.
I am going to write about what does peasant farmers do.
Peasant farmer was the lowest level of people in the middle ages. The farmers worked the fields daily, planting, harvesting, and fertilizing the plants. There are manor of the grounds, and peasant farmers should have payment to the manors for using the ground. Therefore peasant farmers should be always nice to the manor, and work hard.
Also kind of peasant farmer was craftsmen.
The craftsmen built their goods to sell, and paid a tax to the lord for their right to use the land. Their life mainly consisted of making their goods and services available to the public of the town, coming to help when the town or castle needed repairs, or training the younger generation with their craft. Their profit from the sales was used to buy food from the farmers, and other items which kept the cycle of sales and purchases flowing to keep the medieval economy going.


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