Editing List of peasant revolts (section)

== Background ==
[[File:Poltettu kylä.jpg|thumb|The [[Cudgel War]] was the 16th century peasant uprising in [[Finland]], which was at that time part of the [[Kingdom of Sweden]].<ref>''Nuijasota'' by {{ill|Heikki Ylikangas|fi}}, [[Otava (publisher)|Otava]], 1996 {{ISBN|951-1-14253-4}} (in Finnish)</ref> {{lang|fi|Poltettu kylä}} (Burned Village), by [[Albert Edelfelt]], 1879]]
The history of peasant wars spans over two thousand years.  A variety of factors fueled the emergence of the peasant revolt phenomenon, including:<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Late Medieval Peasant Wars|author=Frantisek Graus|date=5 February 2008|doi=10.1080/03066157508437962|volume=3|journal=The Journal of Peasant Studies|pages=1–9|s2cid=145755659 }}</ref>

* [[Tax resistance]] 
* [[Social inequality]] 
* [[Religious war]] 
* [[Wars of national liberation|National liberation]] 
* Resistance against [[serfdom]] 
* [[Land reform]]
* External factors such as [[Black Death|plague]] and [[Great Famine of 1315-1317|famine]]

Later peasant revolts such as the [[Telangana Rebellion]] were also influenced by [[Agrarian socialism|agrarian socialist]] ideologies such as [[Maoism]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unc.edu/courses/2007fall/geog/804/001/Skocpol%201979%20What%20Makes%20Peasant%20Revolutionary.pdf|title=Review: What Makes Peasants Revolutionary?|author=Theda Skocpol|date=April 1982|access-date=22 October 2014}}</ref>

The majority of peasant rebellions ended prematurely and were unsuccessful. Peasants suffered from limited funding and lacked the training and organisational capabilities of professional armies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/bondeoproer/?tx_historyview_pi1&#91;lang&#93;=1&cHash=f8911ce32f21435e54b5720e3e9db0f7|title=Peasant Rebellions|work=Danmarkshistorien-Aarhus University|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-date=4 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104231211/http://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/bondeoproer/?tx_historyview_pi1%5Blang%5D=1&cHash=f8911ce32f21435e54b5720e3e9db0f7|url-status=dead}}</ref>