1. The Middle Ages
When the nobles needed help protecting his fief, he hired a knight for military services, and paid the knight with a smaller estate called a manor (Hartman 27). ... On the manors, the peasants were forced to farm the miles of fields that surrounded the luxurious castles of the rich-blooded (Hartman 87). The peasants received only a small amount of farmland on which to grow food for their families and keep whatever farm animals they could afford, and for this they worked and paid taxes and gave the surplus farmed goods to their superior (Briquebec 36). ... The peasants were hardworking, and ...
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