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  • The Peasants' War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, literally the "German Peasants' War") was a popular revolt in southern ...
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  • May 1525) was an early Reformation-era German pastor who was a rebel leader ... him and invitations to preach in Latin and German in the University chapels ...
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  • visions were sadly misplaced, as the peasants rejected and even killed ... they objected against the uprooting of peasants from the traditional obshchina ...
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  • The Peasants' War (in German, der Deutsche Bauernkrieg, literally the "German Peasants' War") was a popular revolt in southern ...
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  • – August 31, 1528), was an important German Renaissance painter of religious ... are perhaps the most spectacular found in German art until the late nineteenth ...
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  • to create a moderately wealthy class of peasants, those who would be supporters ... Russia avoid a violent revolution. Many German political leaders feared ...
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  • Karl Georg Büchner (October 17, 1813 – February 19, 1837) was a ... attained the significance of such central German literary figures as Johann ...
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  • A German visitor to the Hetmanate, writing in 1720, commented on how ... Cossacks, the clergy, the townspeople, and the peasants. ...
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  • to Paris and London as a medium with a German spiritualist, and then again ... reportedly refused for his allegedly anti-German sentiments. However, Reymont ...
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  • at the request of Poland and Livonia. The German merchant companies ignored ... laws restricting the mobility of the peasants, which would eventually ...
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  • he was expelled from the country by the German government for his role in ... of Guangzhou and win the support of the peasants and farms in that area. ...
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  • Serfdom is the socio-economic status of unfree peasants under feudalism ... by the social structure that made the peasants servile in a group rather ...
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  • their empires by carving up former German and Ottoman Empire possession ... of volunteers and conscripts, from nobles to peasants. Some leaders ...
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  • The divisions of the "Chinese Workers' and Peasants' ... Kuomintang army units, supplemented by peasants from the Communist rural ...
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  • The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. Its ... Ierosolimitanorum, or "Order of the German House of St. Mary in Jerusalem ...
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  • revolutions abroad (crucially the German revolutions of 1919, but ... all conceivable circumstances, if the German revolution does not come ...
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  • a largely agrarian nation consisting of peasants into an industrial superpower ... the end of the NEP, which had allowed peasants to sell their surpluses ...
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  • After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, peasants gained control ... or tight-fisted, a pejorative term), peasants with enough land and money ...
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  • century on: the Protestant Reformation, Peasants' War, Spanish Occupation ... Expressionists. The movement is primarily German and Austrian, though American ...
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  • in World War I on the condition that all German spheres of influence in China ... in 1917, with the condition that all German spheres of influence, such ...
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  • and opposed the ritual of christening, German Crusaders were sent into ... nations called Livonia developed under German rule. Livonia included today ...
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  • 1963) was an outstanding twentieth-century German composer, as well as a violist ... By the 1930s Hindemith had become the most prominent German composer ...
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  • in turn lords to their own vassals, the peasants who worked on their land ... monks) and "those who labor" (peasants, serfs) (bellatores, oratores ...
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  • A German Princess and cousin to Gustav III of Sweden and Charles XIII ... classes—officials, nobles, burghers and peasants and of various nationalities—was ...
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  • to Old English gos with the plural gés, German Gans and Old Norse gas. Other ... products, these dishes were used by peasants as a means of storing meats ...
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  • at the time which forced many poor peasants in northern France and Germany ... Thus, in 1212, a young French puer named Stephen and a German puer ...
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  • as editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, a German newspaper. There he championed ... There they co-wrote The German Ideology, a scathing criticism of the ...
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  • es Salaam remained a small port until the German East Africa Company established ... planters, villages, indigenous people, and peasants. The British captured ...
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  • out of the window" (From Latin and German). The first defenestration ... discontent at the inequality between the peasants and the Roman Catholic Church ...
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  • based movement in the rural areas as peasants seized and redistributed land. ... resembled that of medieval Europe, with peasants bound to an inefficiently ...
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  • become the preferred term.Ross King and German Kim. East Rock Institute ... owned the farmlands in the country, poor peasants finding difficulty to survive ...
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  • The word bacon is derived from the Old High German word bacho, meaning ... Bacon was a staple meat for European peasants for many centuries. ...
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  • #039;s surrender. Though popular with the peasants, this antagonized the middle ... cooperation with Germany, and the only German presence in Bulgaria was ...
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  • the Allied powers assigned the majority of German Silesia to Poland. The small ... along with the fact that it had a large German population, it was plundered ...
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  • Hence the Soviets of Peasants’ Deputies, primarily the uyezd and ... All-Russia Congress Of Soviets Of Peasants' Deputies: ...
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  • The 95 Theses were quickly translated into German, widely copied and printed ... Pope Leo X initially dismissed Luther as "a drunken German who ...
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  • Maximilian Weber (April 21, 1864 – June 14, 1920) was a German political ... member of commissions that tried to retain German supremacy in Belgium and ...
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  • the Prussian Crusade; Prussia became a German-language territory, assimilating ... were resettled by the Knights. Many free peasants were made into serfs. Local ...
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  • War. Of these, the majority of were not German or other "enemies" ... camps for forced labor at a profit. Many German companies used forced labor ...
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  • "duck," eind = "end," German ente = "duck," ... products, these dishes were used by peasants as a means to store meats ...
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  • for centuries had substantial influence on German and European history. The ... Also, by definition, it was a multi-cultural state in which German ...
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  • and named Pishpek from 1877. Russian peasants were encouraged to settle ... *The train station, which was built in 1946 by German prisoners of ...
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  • Hitler's power can explain why the German people did little and went ... of the society: intelligentsia, peasants and especially those branded ...
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  • to an assimilated Russian family of German descent. His parents, Yakov ... and Romanian in 1970, Spanish in 1971, and German in 1972. ...
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  • The new Polish, German, Czech-Bohemian, Slovenian, Norwegian, Finnish ... in each polka band. Elements of the German landler, the Polish oberek ...
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  • could include intellectuals, workers and peasants. In the case of Russia, ... antecedents were Russian, Kalmyk, Jewish, German and Swedish, and possibly ...
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  • Willhardt et al., 15. During the Romanian Peasants' Revolt of 1907, the ... Eventually, he collaborated with the German authorities who had occupied ...
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  • rural agrarian economy of landholders and peasants to a modern industrialized ... in Russian society. Newly emancipated peasants earned too little and were ...
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  • Whites received military assistance from the German Empire. ... Finland passed from Russian rule to the German sphere of influence. The ...
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  • The unpopular Tsaritsa, meanwhile, was of German descent, and she came to ... and especially by my brothers the Russian peasants, you, Tsar of Russia, will ...
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  • fluent in Russian (he was also fluent in German, and competent at English). ... than embrace the new government, the peasants took the view that any government ...
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  • of six children in Hoboken, New Jersey to German-Jewish immigrant parents ... Stieglitz took many photographs of peasants working on the Dutch seacoast ...
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  • Germany and opening up the territory for German and Jewish merchant settlements. His brothers maintained ties with the German ruler and minted their own ...
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  • before it passed to the rulers of the German confederacy. At its largest ... Teutoburg Forest, Charlemagne crushed all German and Slavic resistance he ...
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  • and Slovak from his mother's side and German roots from his father's side. ... Revolutionary Government of Workers and Peasants, headed by Kádár, was ...
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  • The precocious Matthias quickly mastered German, Italian, Romanian, Latin ... Burgundy, Switzerland, Florence, most German states, Russia and, occasionally ...
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  • hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed ... == German involvement in Villa's later campaigns == ...
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  • thought the vast and fertile continent of German metaphysics” (E. H. Carr ... Bakunin became closely associated with German communist Wilhelm Weitling ...
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  • that led to that revolution persisted. Peasants had been emancipated but ... left the reins of power to his wife, the German Tsarina Alexandra, who was ...
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  • Six months later, he was arrested and expelled from the German Empire ... with it. Upon the outbreak of Romanian Peasants' Revolt of 1907, Rakovsky ...
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  • capitalism had led large numbers of peasants to move to the cities, he ... to keep abreast of the developments in German Marxism where there had been ...
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  • rejected in favor of the more pragmatic German architects fleeing Nazism ... agrarian country composed of 90 percent peasants. There was also the critique ...
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  • to deliver the homeland into foreign (German) hands." ... his moral outrage at the treatment of peasants by their landowners, like ...
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  • with Edward to compete against the new German king Charles IV, but Edward ... of the labor force angered the peasants, leading to the Peasants ...
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  • included most urban workers, most peasants, and much of the educated ... Italian military assistance in case of a Nazi German invasion. ...
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  • The modern day term, Vampire (derivative of the German vampir), usually ... The English word vampire is a derivative of the German vampir, which ...
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  • such as the Scandinavian langhus and the German and Dutch Fachhallenhaus ... This was the house of peasants (and their animals) throughout Western ...
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  • families, dying of starvation. Many peasants resisted collectivization ... have been accidentally electrocuted in the German prison camp where he was ...
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  • the realm: nobility, clergy, burghers and peasants, who represented the majority ... the more oppressed life of the Russian peasants on the areas of Finland ...
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  • Near the end of World War II, German forces were driven from Poland ... landowners was redistributed to the peasants. The regime embarked on ...
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  • to the poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside. He went ... especially the sciences; he studied some German and English, reading, among ...
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  • publisher had begun his career editing a German-language publication in St ... sent to crush the rebellion, herded Cuban peasants into concentration camps ...
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  • Jacobites at the Boyne were composed of German Protestants. In a European ... the Irish infantry, predominantly peasants who had been pressed into ...
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  • Rwanda. In 1895 the Rwandan king accepted German rule to maintain his power ... region was far more direct and harsh than German rule. The Belgian colonizers ...
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  • žalia giria) and Grunwald (from the German grüner Wald) both translate ... One of the anonymous chronicles from the German Hanseatic city of Lübeck ...
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  • as the long-term goal. Although the peasants had been allowed to work ... (a fixed proportion of the crop), and the peasants were free to sell their ...
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  • defeats, a return to serfdom for the peasants (the second serfdom phenomena ... falling grain prices by increasing the peasants' workload, thus leading ...
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  • The German name Siebenbürgen means "seven fortresses," ... the descendants of Latin-speaking Dacian peasants who remained in Transylvania ...
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  • quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the ... damaging was the May 6, 1527, Spanish and German troops' sacking Rome ...
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  • struggle against the kulaks (wealthier peasants), and agitation for world ... more moderate approach of offering the peasants the opportunity to become ...
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  • had anticipated began to appear. The Peasants' War, the Anabaptist ... translation of the New Testament into German, and William Tyndale’s ...
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  • Satsuma Rebellion led by Saigo Takamori. Peasants, distrustful of the new ... The Supreme War Council developed a German-style general staff system ...
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  • Estonia was Christianized when the German "Livonian Brothers ... recovered quickly. Although the rights of peasants were initially weakened ...
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  • 1990) Retrieved June 3, 2020. As the German teacher started to praise ... in the city and bought a village with 50 peasants in the Kromy region from ...
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  • Germany from 1919 to 1933. This period of German history is often known as ... Reich," the same name used by the German monarchy before 1919. The ...
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  • the principal Soviet signatory of the German–Soviet non-aggression pact ... since it thought that the old name sounded too German. Molotov became ...
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  • this period was a vivid account of the peasants of Kabylie who lived in ... totalitarianism, be it in the form of German fascism or the revolutionary ...
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  • Finnish was then the language of peasants, whereas the literate and ... A notable partial translation of the German translation (by Franz ...
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  • of Versailles in France. Princes of the German states, excluding Austria ... Empire in 1806, and the subsequent rise of German nationalism. In the mountainous ...
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  • under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. German Nazism, under Adolf Hitler ... survive the leader's demise, just as German and Spanish fascism collapsed ...
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  • class intellectuals and supported by peasants. The word communism is now ... to each according to his needs." The German Ideology (1845) was one of ...
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  • To the east, Luxembourg borders the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate ... state bureaucracy introduced. Luxembourg peasants rejected the French government ...
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  • Europe led the bourgeoisie and even the peasants to follow trends at a distance ... Ten sixteenth-century portraits of German or Italian gentlemen may ...
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  • act as regent was to proceed against the German king Frederick III, who refused ... drew a large crusade made up mostly of peasants. Although relatively ill ...
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  • John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, of German American ... small-unit diversion operations against German-held islands in the Mediterranean ...
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  • which is the northern part of the former German East Prussia, including the ... when it was first mentioned in a medieval German manuscript, the Quedlinburg ...
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  • Custine invaded Germany, occupying several German towns along the Rhine and ... Moreau, while Jourdan attacked from the German border. The French withstood ...
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  • Some folklorists prefer to use the German term Märchen to refer to ... not marked out as a separate genre. The German term "Märchen" ...
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  • response was uprooting large numbers of peasants who lived in the affected ... Beginning in 1985, peasants were forced to move their homesteads into ...
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  • the National Centre of Independents and Peasants (CNIP), a conservative grouping ... In 2003, he received the Charlemagne Award of the German city of Aachen ...
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  • Heinrich Georg Witte, was from a Lutheran Baltic German family. ... a 10-year commercial treaty with the German Empire on favorable terms ...
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