Serfs
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He ordered, however, Oswald to keep an eye upon him; and directed that officer, with two of his
serfs
, to convey Ivanhoe to Ashby as soon as the crowd had dispersed.
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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.
A slight adjustment of spelling, and rabota became the Czech robota, which, in addition to defining the toil of the serfs, was also used figuratively to describe any kind of hard work or drudgery.
Others were more like European
serfs.
One third of the global population producing 5 percent of the wealth because they didn't get this change, because they kept treating their people like
serfs
instead of like shareholders of a common project.
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