WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Life was hard: if crops failed, peasants faced starvation. Towns and villages in the medieval period were unhygienic due to a lack of sanitation. Animals roamed the street and human waste and waste meat were commonly thrown into the street.

Detailed explanation-2: -For medieval peasants, winter was a time of slowing-down of agricultural labour. Cold weather and snowfalls made work more difficult and posed numerous challenges to those whose houses were poorly heated.

Detailed explanation-3: -Farmers and peasants lived in simple dwellings called cottages. They built their own homes from wood and the roofs were thatched (made of bundles of reeds that have to be replaced periodically).

Detailed explanation-4: -The life of an English peasant was harsh. Peasants worked from sunup to sundown. Under the feudal system, peasants were expected to work the lands of their sworn master and also the church land. They also carried a heavy tax burden, paying taxes or rent to the landowner, the church, and the king.

Detailed explanation-5: -Peasants were not free men and, most of the time, they depended on a Lord. Land in the village was controlled by the Lord of the Manor and the peasants who farmed it were tenant farmers-they did not own the land they worked. Most farmers were poor and lived miserably.