Peasant Life
§The shoulder
horse collar
§The
wheelbarrow
§Iron
tools
§Irrigation
networks
§Cropping
patterns.
►Few peasants produced more than what was required for subsistence and taxes.
►With a large enough holding they might sell any surplus and live well.
►Poorer peasants with little or no land labored for landlords in conditions of poverty.
►Technological development eased labor burdens through inventions like:
