Peasants' War Event

[TheBagelmeister]

I'm going to start working on it soon, but I've decided to work a Peasants' War event. This lasted from 1524-1526. I'm thinking of making a temporary nation for it, similar to the Hussites. Of course, I might just go for regular revolts. Any comments or ideas?

 

[unmerged(2456)]

use revolts unless you have a serious reason to make a nation. Tags are somewhat limited, but revolts are cheap.

 

[TheBagelmeister]

use revolts unless you have a serious reason to make a nation. Tags are somewhat limited, but revolts are cheap.

But what happens if the revolts succeed, especially in a one-province state?

 

[Garbon]

I'd go with revolts...2 years isn't really a justification for a tag.

 

[unmerged(29041)]

If you are going to do it, you should do it well. Look here:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Popular-revolt-in-late-medieval-Europe

The main peasant revolts were:

• The Peasant revolt in Flanders 1323-1328. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years.
• The Jacquerie was a peasant revolt that took place in northern France in 1356-1358, during the Hundred Years' War.
• The Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381 is a major event in the history of England. It is the best documented and most well known of all the revolts of this period.
• The Bobâlna (Bábolna) revolt broke out in Transylvania in 1437. The military tactics of the rebels were inspired by the Hussites wars (for example, the use of battle wagons).
• The Kent rebellion of 1450 led by Jack Cade.
• The Rebellion of the Remences (Remensa) in Catalonia in 1462 and 1485.
• The 1514 peasant's war led by György Dózsa in Transylvania.
• The Peasants' War of 1524-1526 in the Holy Roman Empire.
• The Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt of 1573 was a large peasant revolt in Croatia.
• The Slovenian peasant revolt of 1515 was a peasant revolt which engulfed most of what is now Slovenia.
• The peasant wars of Ivan Bolotnikov and Stenka Razin in the 17th-century Russia.

 

[Arilou]

You can always make events for the individual nations "Eg. "Peasants seize control of Bavaria" (Insert changes to DP settings here)

 

[unmerged(29041)]

Yes, the remensa rebellion is already in some sort in ARG, but it is always worth reviewing those events and changing the description to put them into an European perspective.

About seizing control, I am unsure. They all failed to do anything but cause trouble, but it would be nice to have the option to chose between increase free subjects versus to enserf them further. As a general rule, countries with strong monarchies (high centralization, low aristocracy) had happier peasants, while in countries with weak monarchies, the nobles run unchecked crushing the peasants rights, and rebellions took place.