Peasants revolt
[type your
name here]
Diamond 9 Diagram
SAVE
SHARE
NEW
Tips / Samples
[Put 9 key factors in the boxes, with the most important towards the top. You can then use this box to explain why you put them where you did!].
King Richard was only 15
Peasants heard about successful revolts in other countries
Taxes were used for wars outside England. Some peasants were forced to fight
The Black Death had killed so many peole that there was a shortage of workers and wages rose
The leader of the revolt was Wat Tyler
Some peasants wanted to get rid of the hated Archbishop of Canterbury
The Statute of Labourers - kept wages down to levels before the Black Death
The peasants hated the Poll Tax. They thought itas unfair that the rich paid the same as the poor
The peasants wanted to be freemen not villeins.