Question

What was one significant outcome of the German Peasants’ Revolt

Answer 1

1.On the surface, the peasants were crushed, their demands denied, and many executed. However, the land owners had been scared, and in the longer term several things were achieved.

2. Parliament gave up trying to control the wages the landowners paid their peasants.

3. The hated poll tax was never raised again.

4. The Lords treated the peasants with much more respect. They made more of them free men ie. they were not owned as part of the land. This benefited in the end, as free men always work much harder.

5. This marked the breakdown of the feudal system, which had worked well during the early Middle Ages, but was now becoming outdated as attitudes were beginning to change.

Answer 2

At the Battle of Frankenhausen in May 1525, the peasants were surrounded and killed by the thousands. The leader of the revolt ended up being arrested and, under torture, was forced to deny his convictions. Finally he was beheaded. His head was hung as a trophy at the entrance gates of Frankenhausen.

After the defeat, the peasants remained under the yoke of the feudal lords and maintained as serfs, reinforced by the Lutheran principle of passive submission to authority.

Step-by-step explanation:

In 1524, the German peasants revolted against the feudal lords, to whom they were forced to work. The crisis of the feudal system had changed the situation of the rural population. Led by Thomas Müntzer, a pastor of Saxony, the peasant revolt spread through the countryside and cities of Germany.

The peasantry was based on the Bible to affirm that the peasants were born free and demanded the free choice of the spiritual leaders, the abolition of the servitude, the diminution of taxes on the land and the freedom to hunt in the forests belonging to the nobility. Luther condemned the peasants' movement, supporting the princes and nobles.