WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the late Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages a colonus (plural: coloni) was a tenant farmer. Known collectively as the “colonate", these farmers operated as sharecroppers, paying landowners with a portion of their crops in exchange for use of their farmlands.

Detailed explanation-2: -Over 90% of ancient Romans lived in the countryside, and the most common job there was to be a farmer. Farmers worked hard! They got up early and worked seven days a week doing chores and tending to crops. Most farmers either owned their own farmland, or worked for a larger business.

Detailed explanation-3: -a farmer who pays rent to use land owned by someone else: Millions of farmers in the Philippines are tenant farmers and, on average, they hand over 60-70% of their harvest to their landlord as rent.

Detailed explanation-4: -The zamindars who rented their lands were known as landlords, and the peasants who cultivated these lands were known as tenant cultivators.

Detailed explanation-5: -latifundium, plural Latifundia, any large ancient Roman agricultural estate that used a large number of peasant or slave labourers.