The Middle Ages
Peasant take advantage of the Black Plague
Get more land so their kids can have better education
Half the population was dead
The people with weak immune systems
early mornings of black death
the bodies would be carted away
First wave : 300 people died a day
Peasants Revolt
Peasants didn't actually start the revolt
It was men with something to lose
Made little money
Taxes are too high, not fair
Slaves want equality
We are all descended from Adam and Eve
Go to the King
We shouldn't be treated as a lesser person
Richard learns that his allies have switched sides
Sneaks across the country as a priest
Richard settles the score with his "enemies"
He has earls and dukes murdered
Even his own uncle
He replaces them with "yes" men
Very doubtful and paranoid
Henry the fifth died of dysentry
Couldn't prevent the bloody war
after Richard was dethroned
War of the Roses
leaves you feeling slightly numbed
letters of Northfolk
famers, lawyers, or social risers
"No one ever saw a season worse than this"
the improbable had happened and they had survived through it all
They knew that if they prayed they would survive
Apocalyptic famine in 1915
14,000 people died in Dublin alone
If you touched the sick or dead
you became sick and died
They tried to find a way to make a
remedy for the plague
If the people could keep it down, the person would live
if they couldn't keep it down, then you would surely die
Children became rich/valuable
Could inherit the land of their parents
'Twas hard to find work on the ground
hard to come by
Rebels attack London
The rebels have London in ruins
King is not sure that he will survive
Prays that night
The King Gives a Speech
Remain loyal and we will spare you
All the people kneel
They are all spared
Only the king is left standing
Continue to fight and we will kill you
Ireland is a fatal distraction
A report of the king's renunciation is read in front of the Parliament
Richard was placed in prison
Probably starved to death
Pastons
The War of Roses was going to happen somewhere else
had to surrender their castle to the Duke of Northfolk
they had survived the civil war, the plague
they knew that the knights could have gone a rampage and killed people