Question

differentiate between the following cultivators : tenants, small owners, tenants

Answer 1

During the mid eighteenth century in Europe, the peasant class was divided into small landowners and tenants.
The tenants were the peasants who cultivated the land that was owned not by them, but by some large landowing aristocratic family.
The small landowners were peasants who actually owned small pieces of land, which enabled them to undertake some form of subsistence farming.