Britain<span> also needed money to pay for its war debts. The King and Parliament believed they had the right to </span>tax<span> the </span>colonies<span>. They decided to require several kinds of </span>taxes <span>from the </span>colonists<span> to help pay for the French and Indian War.</span>
<span>The population of Europe declined by around 1/3 (like 27-33%) and most of which was the peasantry. This lack of peasantry didn't mean that the work they had to do was also diminished. They still had to do all the work, only with less numbers. This increased amount of labor lead to unrest in the societies in the Medieval era. They demanded a type of increased wage, or allowance of food/ration, and eventually gained some ground, which led a sort of Yeoman class, (emerging lower class) in England, and the bourgeoisie, for example, in France.</span>
