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The law was a watershed, because it simultaneously pacified violent regions, delivered justice for millions of dispossessed peasants, radically improved standards of living, and blunted the appeal of a guerrilla group that used the banner of land reform to justify its untold atrocities.

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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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