Despite the tropes, I'm only aware of one successful peasant rebellion (the one that toppled the Ming Dynasty and installed the very short-lived Shun Dynasty). Are there other successful peasant revolts in your period of study?

by Iestwyn

It's my impression that rebellions, civil wars, and coups really only work if there are people with power at the helm: nobles, military leaders, or other elites. As in the title, I only know of one exception.

In the eras that you study, are there other successful rebellions that were primarily moved by the lower class, without much elite assistance?

CaptainRhino

u/mikedash writes about medieval Dithmarschen here.

Their de facto independence began more as an exploitation of a power vacuum from other feudal lords than as an actual revolt, but they did successfully repulse an invasion by Holstein and in the aftermath expelled their own petty-nobility to form what could be described as a peasant republic with "a form of broad representative democracy".