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2thick "Considering that only .000000000000000000000000000001% of Arabs that fly actually hijack an airplane, it would be a racist tool.
And you being a white male would know absolutely nothing about racism or prejudice, so you would never know what it feels like."
Please read about our past 2thick and stop with the ignorance.
In the second half of the fourteenth century the english kingdom had to pay a high tribute to the pope, which means that finally the peasants, the simple peasants really had to work and pay for the pope. But the lords also had an interest in getting rid of this burden, because they had to pass part of the money they had pressed out of the peasants to someone else. An Oxford professor, John Wyclif(1324-1384), said clearly what everybody thought. In 1360, Wyclif declared that the first Christians had lived in devote poverty. He than attacked the priests of the catholic church because of their rich life, concluding, that everybody within the church should live as modestly as the first Christians.
Because of the hundred years war most of the lords were occupied robbing Frances treasures (the victory of Crecy in Northern France literally changed the whole life in England). But then the war turned in favor of the french army and in 1374 a truce was concluded and the english lords had to satisfy their needs by increasing the pressure on their own population, the workers and peasants in England. By doing so they aggravated a situation of discontent. The Black Death had ravaged England in 1348/49 and nearly half of the population had died with the consequence that working people were rare and wages high. The Government issued laws aiming to reduce wages at their level before the plague and the lords, unsuccessful in the war, applied their privileges strictly. Especially the crown was in need of money to continue the war against France. The unpopular levy of 1377, a proportionate poll tax on every adult, was followed by the graduated tax on moveable property of 1379, the latter a failure that resulted in the replacement of the Chancellor, Richard Scrope. In 1380, Parliament allowed the king, through his new Chancellor, Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, to assess a flat tax of three groats (one shilling) on every man and woman over the age of fifteen. This was more as the lower classes could pay, but tax collectors enforced the application, often diverting the result to their personal fortune: "The kyng therof had smalle." The rallying-point for the rebellion was the poll tax of 1380-81, a tax that, as an anonymous poet said, "has tenet us alle." This was the third poll tax, and it was enforced by commissions of inquiry, which investigated whether all persons were complying with the tax.
The situation of the peasants became insupportable and the english peasants uprising began. It had been prepared and guided mainly by the preachers John Ball and Jack Straw, whereas the peasants in Kent were led by Wat Tyler.
if you would like to read more about this uprising...
http://www.felix2.f2s.com/english/balle.html
And you being a white male would know absolutely nothing about racism or prejudice, so you would never know what it feels like."
Please read about our past 2thick and stop with the ignorance.
In the second half of the fourteenth century the english kingdom had to pay a high tribute to the pope, which means that finally the peasants, the simple peasants really had to work and pay for the pope. But the lords also had an interest in getting rid of this burden, because they had to pass part of the money they had pressed out of the peasants to someone else. An Oxford professor, John Wyclif(1324-1384), said clearly what everybody thought. In 1360, Wyclif declared that the first Christians had lived in devote poverty. He than attacked the priests of the catholic church because of their rich life, concluding, that everybody within the church should live as modestly as the first Christians.
Because of the hundred years war most of the lords were occupied robbing Frances treasures (the victory of Crecy in Northern France literally changed the whole life in England). But then the war turned in favor of the french army and in 1374 a truce was concluded and the english lords had to satisfy their needs by increasing the pressure on their own population, the workers and peasants in England. By doing so they aggravated a situation of discontent. The Black Death had ravaged England in 1348/49 and nearly half of the population had died with the consequence that working people were rare and wages high. The Government issued laws aiming to reduce wages at their level before the plague and the lords, unsuccessful in the war, applied their privileges strictly. Especially the crown was in need of money to continue the war against France. The unpopular levy of 1377, a proportionate poll tax on every adult, was followed by the graduated tax on moveable property of 1379, the latter a failure that resulted in the replacement of the Chancellor, Richard Scrope. In 1380, Parliament allowed the king, through his new Chancellor, Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, to assess a flat tax of three groats (one shilling) on every man and woman over the age of fifteen. This was more as the lower classes could pay, but tax collectors enforced the application, often diverting the result to their personal fortune: "The kyng therof had smalle." The rallying-point for the rebellion was the poll tax of 1380-81, a tax that, as an anonymous poet said, "has tenet us alle." This was the third poll tax, and it was enforced by commissions of inquiry, which investigated whether all persons were complying with the tax.
The situation of the peasants became insupportable and the english peasants uprising began. It had been prepared and guided mainly by the preachers John Ball and Jack Straw, whereas the peasants in Kent were led by Wat Tyler.
if you would like to read more about this uprising...
http://www.felix2.f2s.com/english/balle.html
