15 Sept 1358 Jahr - Jacquerie peasant uprising

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in France | Why: heavy taxation (French govt to fund 100yrs war) | Also blamed nobles for criminal banditry of countryside, losses in war, + general misery | Rxn: murdered nobles + their cattle/horses, burned their castles, rapes their wives/daughters | Peasants joined by artisans, small merchants, + parish priests | Shutdown: forcibly(physically) oppressed the rebellion w/o addressing root causes → anger festered, not gone

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