The People In The Middle Ages

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The life of the people in Middles Ages worst then today. If someone did something wrong or bad they would have to get killed or hung, which I don't think anyone wants that happening to them. Another thing was some of the people that didn't have a lot of things are a hard life since they didn't get anything they wanted. All of the rich and people that were respected got whatever they wanted. For example the kings, nobles, and knights got everything they wanted because everyone. But the peasants don't get everything even though they make the food for all the people that have lots of respect. This shows that the people that didn't have a lot of money didn't get lots of respects and didn't get treated the way they wanted to. Some events that happened

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