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What would the government rely on for legitimacy if unemployed workers begin agitating; if angry peasants begin to besiege local government office in large numbers; if factionalism incites a crisis in leadership; conflict erupts in the Taiwan Straits; or the global economy remains sluggish?

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So that's why the petitioner, the victims, the peasants, want to take the train to Beijing to petition to the central government, they want the emperor to settle the problem.

Knights waged constant war on each other by trying to kill as many of each other's peasants as possible.

Over time, the two merged to give us the English we know today, though the divide between lords and peasants can still be felt in synonym pairs such as cow and beef.

This is because Medieval society followed a feudal system that divided the clergy and nobility from the working classes, made up of peasants and serfs.

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