The manors were large holdings with the work done by feudal peasant farmers. Nobles rarely challenged the tsar for fear of provoking a peasant uprising. Weavers usually belonged to the peasant class. Many were as poor as the peasant class. The distinction between servant, peasant, and slave describe different roles in different contexts. This war saw the use of both samurai and peasant soldiers. Urban centres are particularly reliant on peasant agriculture for their foodstuffs. Mao was the son of a prosperous peasant in Shaoshan, Hunan. The first group of peasant women consisted of free landholders. Florentine food grows out of a tradition of peasant eating rather than rarefied high cooking. It is one of the few legends relating to the Donghak Peasant Revolution. He also wrote books about Irish archaeology and peasant folklore. This bred resentment among the peasant population. The first Muslim reaction to European colonization was of "peasant and religious", not urban origin. He distributed land among the peasant population.