- Gentleman: the
lowest rank
within the gentry.
Gentlemen ranked above yeomen or
landowning farmers. The
Statute of
Additions of 1413
recognised gentlemen as a distinct...
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political activity,
including the
unlikely candidacy of the
scion of a rich
landowning family,
Francisco I. Madero.
Madero won a
surprising amount of political...
- the
economic benefits flowed back to them
rather than
going to a
feudal landowning class. The end of the 16th
century was
marked by a
final phase of rivalry...
-
development of the
martial Khalsa panth of Sikhism. By the 20th century, the
landowning Jats
became an
influential group in
several parts of
North India, including...
- Greece,
especially Athens,
developed the polis, an ****ociation of male
landowning citizens who
collectively constituted the city. The agora,
meaning "gathering...
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Snitterfield in Warwickshire, and Mary Arden, the
daughter of an
affluent landowning family. He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon,
where he was
baptised on 26...
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Landowning family of
Aspel hall in the
United Kingdom...
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expressed opposition to the idea of a
privileged aristocracy made up of
large landowning families partial to the King, and
instead promoted "the
aristocracy of...
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ministers were
responsible only to him. As a result, the grip of the
landowning classes, the Junkers,
remained unbroken,
especially in the
eastern provinces...
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progress or
decadent decline. Most often,
because of the
importance of
landowning in
Roman culture, produce—cereals, legumes, vegetables, and fruit—were...
