What was life like for peasants under the Tokugawa Shogunate?

A) They paid high taxes and mainly lived in poverty

B) They earned a living by traveling as merchants

C) They were provided considerable opportunities for social mobility

D) They grew wealthy providing food for the armies of the shoguns

The life of peasants under the Tokugawa Shogunate was they paid high taxes and mainly lived in poverty.

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

The main job of the peasants in the Tokugawa Shogunate was to grow crops and do farming. These peasants barely owned the land on which they could only live or some of them did not even own land and they had to rent it from the land lords and had to work as tenant farmers. They also had to pay rent, sometimes in the form of rice, and all these situations led to them living in poverty.