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DBQ The Peasant Revolts

The peasants revolts of the German states, from 1524 to 1526, were caused by the subjection of the lords in the states and the apparitional influence brought from Lutheranism, while the responses for these causes from the peasants, such as rioting, and from the nobles, such as planning for no future retaliation of the peasants, went on afterward.
matchless of the reasons why peasants retaliated against the lords and authorities is because of their conquest to the peasants; Documents 2,3,8, & 9 congest this. Sebastian Lotzer, a craftsperson and Lay preacher, and Christoph Schappeler, a preacher from Memmingen, both say, in the 12 Articles, that they will not allow themselves (peasants) to be suppress by the their lords any longer (Doc.2). As well as the Peasants of Swabia say, in the Articles of Memmingen, that the lords should release the peasants of serfdom, which will also relieve the peasants of the lords oppression (Doc.3). In a secret report from Lorenz Fries, the chief consultant of the Archbishop of Wurzburg, he explains of how peasants were starting to demand property and money from the lords who controlled oer them. This is also oppression seeing how the lords got their property and wealth through with(predicate) their serfs and the deeds the serfs did for their lords (Doc.8).



This report is very reliable, due to the fact that it is a secret earn and that Lorenz Fries would most uniformly keep unmortgaged honestly ab prohibited the peasants and the nobles in this letter than he would if it was an open letter to the public (POV).
Lastly, Caspar Nutzel, a town councilor, writes a letter to Duke Albert of Prussia describing how the lords have been treating their serfs with the words authorities have torn out the hair of their subjects, he goes on to say that instead of this oppression towards the peasants, the lords should instead aid, defend, and rule them (Doc.9). Nutzels letter is also reliable like Fries in the fact that they both are private garner and that...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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