wut?
u didnt provide any context... They paid taxes? hope that helps
The Treaty of Versailles that ended WW1 unfairly blamed the Germans for starting WW1, and made them pay lots of money in reperations. This led to the people and the rising dictator Hitler to want revenge against the allies for forming the treaty, therefore eventually starting the second World War.
People thought alcohol was a gift from God, but abuse of it was a present from the devil
Marxism is what the modern day guild is called.
The old laws and traditions disappeared very quickly once the Western Roman Empire collapsed.