Lacking any catalysts for change in the 14th century, Eastern European peasants largely continued upon the original medieval path until the 18th and 19th centuries.

In Germany, peasants continued to center their lives in the village well into the 19th century.

The peasants continued ranting about Communism, others said, as they poured gasoline on the bodies and set them afire.

Rice-producing peasants continued to be the workhorses of the nation and the economic support of the ruling class.

It had worked in the towns, but in the countryside the peasants had continued having six, often a dozen children.

Traders and peasants continued to accrete throughout the next three centuries.

Instead, some peasants transferred the land back to the former owners and continued working it essentially as before.

Few native traditions survived, and the peasants and farm workers continued to be repressed.

Poland remained the only Soviet bloc country where individual peasants would continue to dominate agriculture.

Most Peruvian peasants were independent smallholders and thus continued to farm their land individually after the reforms.