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The Peasants’ Revolt: everything you wanted to know

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Are the Peasants Revolt Related to the Black Death?

The revolt took place in a host black death economy. It had a massive impact on the economy. There was also this overwhelming belief that the king's government was corrupt. The commissioners of inquiry were, were pretty brutal. And there's accounts of some of them actually checking girls virginities to see if they were old enough to be paying tax. Wou know, because they could have sworn that they were under the age of 15. So it was a, people were top treated pretty savagely.

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