How Did The Serfs Change The Western European Political System

In Eastern Europe the economic system was based off of a brutal social system that was driven by serfs. The serfs grew the food that supported the lords and nobility that owned the land that the serfs relied on. Above the serfs but before the land owners were the priests. The priests were actually believed in the bible unlike the more important church people like bishops. The priests belonged to a radical class called the burger that the lords did not like. The lords were important and was the land owning nobility under the king of the country that they lived in. The minor nobility had the ability to tax the serfs on their land. This led to a very high tax on the serfs because they were doubly had taxed once by the minor nobility and again by the king. Lastly the kings were the top of the Eastern European society. They were the leaders of the political system of Eastern Europe. They determined everything that occurred …show more content…
This caused the serfs to be oppressed and changed the political system because the kings of Eastern Europe were always dealing with internal revolts. None were better represented than the Cossack rebellion in Russia. The Russian tsars dealt with this with for many years. The kings also, like in Western Europe, had complete control of war. This allowed the Russian to end the Cossack rebellion and also wage war in The Great Northern War against the Swedes. This allowed the building of St. Petersburg. Without absolute power Peter the Great would have never been able to force his court to move to the swampy new city. This absolute power that Peter had was begun by his predecessor Ivan the Terrible. He implemented a system where the nobility was changed in to service nobility. This allowed him to lower the amount of nobility that was in Russia. These structures allowed for Peter to turn Russia in to and absolutist