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What caused the Peasant’s War?

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The Peasant's war (1524 - 1525) is an uprising in Germany caused by changes brought by Reformation. Peasants in western and southern Germany appealed to divine law to demand agrarian rights and freedom from opression by nobles and landlords.

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