The peasants were the lowest level of the social hierarchy. They were levied more taxes than they earned, and the farming sector was particularly ineffective owing to the primitive techniques France continued to embrace in farming, despite other countries, such as England having moved forward to more modern, and productive methods of farming.
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The four social classes of china were the shi, the Nong, the gong and the Shang. The shi were low-level aristocrats, the Nong were the farmers, the gong were the artisans and craftsman and the Shang were the merchants.
A kulak was a wealthy peasant farmer in 19th century Russia.
Kleinbäuerin, in German. Peasant, in English.
Hierarchial
Serfs a type of peasant was paid around a farthing (a quarter a penny) to a penny