Complex sentence: When multiple complaints to the emperor went unheard, the peasants conspired to rebel, gaining support from their peers in the neighbouring provinces of Styria and Carniola (now in Slovenia) and with the lower classes of townspeople.
Split into simpler sentences: When multiple complaints to the emperor went unheard, the peasants conspired to rebel. They gained support from their peers in the neihgbouring provinces of Styria and Carniola (now in Slovenia) and the lower classes of townspeople.