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corvee
You don't tell your underlings to end corvee labor unless they've been doing it.
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He was particularly upset that party officials were making Tibetans do corvee labor.
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A scribe was exempt from the heavy manual labor required of the lower classes, or corvee labor.
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In 1764 many Oolods migrated to Khovd Province and supplied corvee services for the Khovd garrison of the Qing.
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At the time, southern Vietnam was beset by heavy corvee labour demands, especially with large-scale roadworks in progress.
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The government required individuals to work on the canals in a corvee, although the rich were able to exempt themselves.
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However, Qin's legalist laws and the heavy burden of its taxes and corvee were not easily accepted by the rest of the empire.
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In New Spain these grants were modeled after the tribute and corvee labor that the Mexica rulers had demanded from native communities.
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King Henry took the route of enforcing corvee plantation work on the population in lieu of taxes alongside his massive building projects.
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- Unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
- Corvu00E9e is a form of unpaid, unfree labor, which is intermittent in nature and for limited periods of time: typically only a certain number of days' work each year.
- Alternative form of corvee
- Unpaid labor (especially on roads) due to a feudal lord; labor, especially on roads, in lieu of taxes
- A feudal term for the forced unpaid labor a peasant performed for his lord or vassal. The term was later applied to such labor that inhabitants must perform under the direction of the public authorities, being a type of tax in the form of forced labor.
- The king, as the living god of hte land, had the right to aks his people to assume staggering burdens of labor. This prerogative of the Egyptian kings has been viewed as both a form of slavery and as aunique method of civic responsibility. ...
- Work days owed by a peasant to a lord or lordship
- Dues paid by a serf, usually as labour, in return for use of his lord's land.
- Labor owed by a serf to his landowner.
