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What are Spartan slaves called?
You are looking for the word Helot, however helots were not slaves, they were serfs, that is they were bound to their land, and produced half their produce to the Spartan government.
What peasant groups were nearly slaves under the European feudal systems?
Serfs
How did Russians treat the serfs?
Serfdom was the basis of the Russian economy for hundreds of years. Many unsuccessful attempts were made to change things for the Serfs. The one successful event was Russian revolution in 1917. They overthrew the Tsar, introduced Communism and established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics where all businesses were state owned and operated. It was subsequently argued that they became Serfs of the State rather than to the nobles.
What was the role of peasants in a medieval village?
A peasant was an agricultural worker. Peasants grew food and other agricultural products. The peasants could be slaves, serfs, free tenants, or proprietors of small farms. In Western Europe, during much of the Middle Ages, most were serfs, who lived on manorial estates, and were not permitted to leave but were freer than slaves. Serfs typically worked on or two days out of each week for their lords, and much of the remainder of their time on communal labors. They also had their own small plots for their own use.
What is a list of the four levels of feudal society in medieval England?
At the top were the nobility, which included the knights and had a hierarchy within it. Below them were the freemen, which were the middle class. Below them were serfs and villeins, who were not slaves, but also not quite free. A fourth group, the clergy, was quite apart and had a separate hierarchy of its own, though bishops were considered lords for many purposes, and clergy were considered commoners. There is a different four part hierarchy that is recorded in medieval Scottish law, consisting of nobility, freemen, serfs, and slaves. The slaves disappeared from Scotland during the High Middle Ages, however.
