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    The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (German: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking...
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  • The Peasant War in Germany (German: Der deutsche Bauernkrieg) by Friedrich Engels is a short account of the early-16th-century uprisings known as the...
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  • organized by peasants. The history of peasant wars spans over two thousand years. A variety of factors fueled the emergence of the peasant revolt phenomenon...
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    resulted in the death of Sickingen and likely inspired the German Peasants' War of 1524–1526. In the late Middle Ages, the imperial knights were in a period...
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    The Peasants' War (French: Guerre des Paysans, Dutch: Boerenkrijg, German: Klöppelkrieg, Luxembourgish: Klëppelkrich) was a peasant revolt in 1798 against...
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  • response to the German Peasants' War. Beginning in 1524 and ending in 1525, the Peasants' War was a result of a tumultuous collection of grievances in many different...
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    peasants, entitled The Peasant War in Germany. He also wrote a number of newspaper articles including "The Campaign for the German Imperial Constitution"...
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    Florian Geyer (category German Peasants' War)
    June 1525) was a German nobleman, diplomat, and knight. He became widely known for leading peasants during the German Peasants' War. Florian Geyer was...
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    The Swiss peasant war of 1653 (German: Schweizer Bauernkrieg) was a popular revolt in the Old Swiss Confederacy at the time of the Ancien Régime. A devaluation...
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    copyhold. In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers. As early as in 13th-century Germany, the concept of...
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