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…showed last 75 words of 672 total…society they once had. A new government was needed. The nobles quickly rejected hopes for a better life; many commoners then rose in rebellion. The French Jacquerie of 1358, the English Peasant's Rebellion in 1381, the Catalonian Rebellion in 1395, were all reactions by the peasants. None of these rebellions were successful. There was a huge decline in the birth rate. Europe's population was half what it had been in 1345. Europe's population took about six generations to recover.