Russian serfdom depended entirely on the traditional and extensive technology of the peasantry. The end of serfdom raised the personal legal status of the peasantry. This argued that the nobility had a right to more wealth than the peasantry. The government also began to foment nationalism amongst the peasantry. Land reform measures were passed in 1919 and 1925 under pressure from an impoverished peasantry. Seasonal dormice feasts were welcome protein supplements for the impoverished peasantry. Throughout the 16th to 18th centuries, many of the szlachta mistreated peasantry, townsfolk and Jews. Beginning in the 1880s, a mass emigration of the Galician peasantry occurred. Their gains were fuelled more by the government's alienation of the peasantry. They were successful in galvanising the Bengali peasantry against colonial authorities. Paganism has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry". It was still mostly agricultural and sometimes called the "golden age of the peasantry". Foot Companions were levied from the peasantry of Macedon. Here the Greek-Catholic Ruthenian (Ukrainian) peasantry had been largely under Polish Catholic domination. In addition, Hongwu also reduced the demands for forced labor on the peasantry.