Medieval peasants: everything you wanted to know
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Can You Really Advance Your Life Opportunities?
There's a constant flow of migrants from the countryside into towns. And if you inquire where these people came from, they are almost all peasants. You could sometimes really make it big if you're very clever and perhaps ruthless. So that's one way up. The other way is to acquire more and more land If you can build up a large holding then you might end up in the aristocracy. But the odds are against it.
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