Peasants (Mobius) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages of Mobius under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. During the time of the Robotnik Empire, the term "peasant" was sometimes used by Robotnik to refer to the lower classes that had surfaced due to his coup. In Europa, three classes of peasants existed: slave, serf, and free tenant. Peasants might hold title to land either in fee simple or by any of several forms of land tenure, among them socage, quit-rent, leasehold, and copyhold.
In some contexts, "peasant" has a pejorative meaning, even when referring to farm laborers.
The word peasantry is commonly used in a non-pejorative sense as a collective noun for the rural population in the poor and developing countries of the world, or for the poor themselves.
==Social position==
Peasants typically made up the majority of the agricultural labor force in a pre-industrial Mobian society. The majority of the people—according to one estimate 85% of the population—in the Middle Ages were peasants.
Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where smallholders farmed much of the land. More generally, the word "peasant" is sometimes used to refer pejoratively to those considered to be "lower class", perhaps defined by poorer education and/or a lower income. Peasants resided at the bottom of the feudal system and made up 85 percent of the population. In the peasant class there were different social levels. The lowest of low were a kind of slaves called serfs. Serfs were considered the property of their Lords and relied on them for shelter and food. Serfs could not leave their manor without the Lord's permission yet they still had to pay rent and work the farms.
Above the serfs were the farmers. Some farmers would own their own farms but the vast majority worked alongside the serfs on the Lord's land.
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