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Since the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] in the fifteenth century, [[Yonderre]] had been socially divided as much along cultural lines, [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] and [[East Gothic culture|Gothic]], as it had been along class lines. Sociologists argue the existence of four distinctive classes in Yonderre between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, these being the nobility, clergy, burghers and peasantry, and further argue the existence of subdivisions in each class based on cultural and ethnic heritage. Sociologists further argue that even subdivisions like [[Bergendii]] burghers in [[Collinebourg]] were further divided between those whose families had arrived in [[Yonderre]] with the crusaders in the fifteenth century and those whose families had settled in the subsequent centuries. | Since the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] in the fifteenth century, [[Yonderre]] had been socially divided as much along cultural lines, [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] and [[East Gothic culture|Gothic]], as it had been along class lines. Sociologists argue the existence of four distinctive classes in Yonderre between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, these being the nobility, clergy, burghers and peasantry, and further argue the existence of subdivisions in each class based on cultural and ethnic heritage. Sociologists further argue that even subdivisions like [[Bergendii]] burghers in [[Collinebourg]] were further divided between those whose families had arrived in [[Yonderre]] with the crusaders in the fifteenth century and those whose families had settled in the subsequent centuries. | ||
In the period between the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] and the Yonderian Golden Age (a period typically referred to as the early modern period), Yonderre witnessed three major civil wars all of which were either based on or heavily influenced by cultural tension between the (typically) Gothic peasantry and the mostly Bergendii clergy and nobility, with the burghers typically standing somewhere in-between. The last of the civil wars, the [[Second Potato War]], ended with the rebelling peasantry soundly defeated in 1788, but unlike the previous [[Yonderian Peasants' War]] of 1641-43, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] made concessions to the peasantry, abolishing the highly unpopular [[Potato Laws]] that had caused the war in the first place. Being the last major display of cultural tension on this scale in [[Yonderre]], some sociologists like Nicolas Boucault contend that [[Yonderre]] then experienced what they refer to as a "long nineteenth century", beginning with the end of the [[Second Potato War]] in 1788 and ending with the [[Great Depression]] in 1910.<ref>Boucault, Nicolas: ''Changing will'', [[Vilauristre]], pg. 21-25. 1965.</ref> | In the period between the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] and the Yonderian Golden Age (a period typically referred to as the early modern period), Yonderre witnessed three major civil wars all of which were either based on or heavily influenced by cultural tension between the (typically) Gothic peasantry and the mostly Bergendii clergy and nobility, with the burghers typically standing somewhere in-between. The last of the civil wars, the [[Second Potato War]], ended with the rebelling peasantry soundly defeated in 1788, but unlike the previous [[Yonderian Peasants' War]] of 1641-43, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] made concessions to the peasantry, abolishing the highly unpopular [[Potato Laws]] that had caused the war in the first place. Being the last major display of cultural tension on this scale in [[Yonderre]], some sociologists like [[Nicolas Boucault]] contend that [[Yonderre]] then experienced what they refer to as a "long nineteenth century", beginning with the end of the [[Second Potato War]] in 1788 and ending with the [[Great Depression]] in 1910.<ref>[[Nicolas Boucault|Boucault, Nicolas]]: ''Changing will'', [[Vilauristre]], pg. 21-25. 1965.</ref> | ||
Apart from the abolition of the [[Potato Laws]] however, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] did not make further concessions to the peasantry and continued to rule [[Yonderre]] as an absolute monarch. With his death in 1820 however, [[Falco IV Sentinelleau]] was elected [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]]. Inspired in no small part by the [[Urcea|Urcean]] ideology of [[Crown Liberalism]] and its [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]], Falco IV was more sympathetic to the plight of the peasantry than his predecessor and instituted reforms in the Autumn of 1820 which sought to enable the peasants to buy the farms and land they worked by lowering taxation. The reforms were met with some resistance from the nobility whose incomes depended on taxing the peasantry that they effectively owned through ownership of the farms, but these never evolved past complaints and were largely silenced by the time the [[Constitution of Yonderre]] was signed into place in 1833, effectively ending the lordship over peasantry for anyone but the Grand Duke as sovereign. The question of Gothic and Burgoignesc cultures as incompatible remained, however. | Apart from the abolition of the [[Potato Laws]] however, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] did not make further concessions to the peasantry and continued to rule [[Yonderre]] as an absolute monarch. With his death in 1820 however, [[Falco IV Sentinelleau]] was elected [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]]. Inspired in no small part by the [[Urcea|Urcean]] ideology of [[Crown Liberalism]] and its [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]], Falco IV was more sympathetic to the plight of the peasantry than his predecessor and instituted reforms in the Autumn of 1820 which sought to enable the peasants to buy the farms and land they worked by lowering taxation. The reforms were met with some resistance from the nobility whose incomes depended on taxing the peasantry that they effectively owned through ownership of the farms, but these never evolved past complaints and were largely silenced by the time the [[Constitution of Yonderre]] was signed into place in 1833, effectively ending the lordship over peasantry for anyone but the Grand Duke as sovereign. The question of Gothic and Burgoignesc cultures as incompatible remained, however. | ||