LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Government policies were incorrectly based on the idea that the rich would help the poor survive.
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The high rates of the poll tax were considered unfair.
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Peasants were jointly united against the pattern of upper-class harassments
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All of these answers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The boy-king Richard II meets the rebels on 14 June 1381, in a miniature from a 1470s copy of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles. The final trigger for the revolt was the intervention of a royal official, John Bampton, in Essex on 30 May 1381.
Detailed explanation-2: -The rebellion lasted less than a month and failed completely as a social revolution. King Richard’s promises at Mile End and Smithfield were promptly forgotten, and manorial discontent continued to find expression in local riots.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wat Tyler (c. 1320/4 January 1341 – 15 June 1381) was a leader of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt in England. He led a group of rebels from Canterbury to London to oppose the institution of a poll tax and to demand economic and social reforms.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1381, peasants rebelled against King Richard II. The peasants were angry about a range of issues, such as low pay and the introduction of a poll tax. They demanded changes were made. The revolt did not achieve all of the peasants’ aims and the leader, Wat Tyler, was killed.