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Under this system, peasants lived on a manor presided over by a lord or a bishop of the church. Peasants paid rent or labor services to the lord in exchange for their right to cultivate the land. Fallowed land, pastures, forests, and wasteland were held in common. The open field system required cooperation among the peasants of the manor. It was gradually replaced by individual ownership and management of land.
Peasants were at the bottom of the Third Estateâs social hierarchy. Peasant farmers comprised between 82 and 88 per cent of the population and were the nationâs poorest social class.