Leibzoll
Leibzoll is a big, fancy word that means "taxes that people used to have to pay a long, long time ago".
Imagine you're playing with your friends at school and you have a really cool toy that everyone wants to play with. One day, one of your friends who always wants to play with your toy says, "Hey, if you want to keep playing with that toy, you have to give me some of your candy."
That's kind of like leibzoll. A long time ago, when countries were ruled by kings and queens, people who owned land had to pay "taxes" to the ruler. These taxes were often things like crops or livestock or other valuable things they had on their land. But sometimes, the ruler would say, "If you want to keep living on that land, you have to give me one of your children or some other person from your family."
This was called leibzoll because "leib" means "body" in German, so it was like the ruler was saying, "Give me a person from your body as payment for living on my land."
Thankfully, we don't have to worry about leibzoll anymore, because most countries have laws now that say you can't make people give up their own family members as payment for anything!
Imagine you're playing with your friends at school and you have a really cool toy that everyone wants to play with. One day, one of your friends who always wants to play with your toy says, "Hey, if you want to keep playing with that toy, you have to give me some of your candy."
That's kind of like leibzoll. A long time ago, when countries were ruled by kings and queens, people who owned land had to pay "taxes" to the ruler. These taxes were often things like crops or livestock or other valuable things they had on their land. But sometimes, the ruler would say, "If you want to keep living on that land, you have to give me one of your children or some other person from your family."
This was called leibzoll because "leib" means "body" in German, so it was like the ruler was saying, "Give me a person from your body as payment for living on my land."
Thankfully, we don't have to worry about leibzoll anymore, because most countries have laws now that say you can't make people give up their own family members as payment for anything!