Eastern Europe

•All the factors that helped in Western Europe worked against peasantry in Eastern Europe

•Peasantry sank into serfdom

•Most peasants lost any land they owned

•Robot – (Bohemia) peasants owed 3-4 days a week to lord in forced labor. Many times more because gov’t was not centralized and lord had final say in most matters.

•Could not leave manor, marry or learn a trade without lord’s permission.

•Rural masses in total poverty and under the eye of the lord

Treaty of Karlowitz

Peace of Utrecht

Peace of Belgrade

Pragmatic Sanction of 1713

Maria Theresa