Name a few causes of the peasant revolt.
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❥Economic Exploitation
❥Particularly of the rural areas
❥Created widespread discontent among the cultivators.
Explanation:
The principal causes of the Peasants' Revolt were:
1). a new poll tax imposed on all peasants irrespective of wealth (the third such tax since 1377 CE).
2). the limit by law on wages after labour costs had risen dramatically following the Black Death plague.
3). unscrupulous landlords trying to turn free labourers back into serfs (aka villeins) to save money on wages.
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