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    Feudalism is defined as the dominant social system in post classical Europe. Land was passed down from the kings to the nobles, who gave it to the knights, who gave it to the peasants. These peasants farmed the land in turn for protection, a home and a share of the harvested food on the land. Peasants provide food and services to the warriors. Vassals provided military service and protection to the barons (nobles) in exchange for land. The barrons provided money and knights to the kings. European

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    Feudalism was an effective system of organization in the Middle Ages for many countries. The system of feudalism made it possible for everyone to get what they needed, Feudalism relied on the manor, it’s major economic force to keep the economy of feudalism going. Feudalism would have fallen apart without each role providing the feudal society with their goods and services, the shepherd was only one of these vital roles. Feudalism was an effective social, political and economic organization of the

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    Feudalism is the economic and political system in the Middle Ages, which is usually represented by a triangle. The order of the triangle from most power to least power is monarch, lords, knights, peasants, and serfs. The Magna Carta, the Bubonic Plague, and the Hundred Years’ War all contributed to the decline of feudalism. The Magna Carta led to the decline of feudalism. It happened because King John was not a good leader. He had a lot of enemies because he taxed people heavily, ignored their

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    European feudalism was based on contract and Japanese feudalism was based on personal relationship with the lord and vassal. This helps prove that the differences between European and Japanese feudalism made limited government more likely to develop in the West because a contract limits what the lords and vassals could do. William, the king of English, said, “I command you [the vassal] to summon all those who are under your charge......and bring ready with you those five knights that you owe me[

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    To begin with, what is Feudalism exactly? Have you ever looked into the real meaning of this word? Let’s take a quick look at what the dictionary explains it as. Dictionary states the Feudalism “is the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which nobility held lands from the crown in exchange for military service…ext.” So in a short description, it is the ownership specific trustworthy people had. We can take a look at what feudalism looked like in a couple places.

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    Ryan Webb HIST 2311 Professor Coyle 11/21/16 Major Essay 2: Feudalism In Western Europe during the Middle Ages feudalism was the dominant social system between the 8th and 15th century. The term feudalism describes the relationships between the crown, the nobility, knights, and the peasantry. Under the feudal system, the crown provided land to the nobility for their own use. In exchange for the land, the nobility provided the crown with knights to serve in the military. At the bottom of the

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    Looking at the decline of feudalism from an economic standpoint, there could be numerous theories and explanations why and how it happened. Nell says “The expansion of trade leads to an increase in wealth and size of towns and a decline in population leads to relatively greater decline in seigniorial than in artisan incomes” (J. Nell 328). Roughly before the year 1000, feudalism reigned supreme throughout various parts of the world, including Western Europe. Feudal Lords and nobles would partake

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    Feudalism in Medieval Japan and Medieval Europe Medieval Japan started in 1185 AD and ended in 1868 AD, this time included the Kamakura, Ashikaga, Sengoku-Jidai and the Tokugawa periods. Medieval Europe started with the Early Middle Ages in 476 CE, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300 CE and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 CE to around 1500 CE. In the Japanese bakufu system, the emperor was the highest position then the shogun, daimyo, samurai, peasants, artisans and merchants. On the other hand

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    Feudalism functioned as an ordered political and economic hierarchy because it was influenced by the hierarchical concepts of the Great Chain of Being and the spirituality of Catholicism. (SIP-A) The Great Chain of Being was a concept that supported the idea of a organized universal hierarchy. The Great Chain of Being was a concept which basically said that everything in the universe had its own place (Melani). In the Great Chain of Being, everything had a specific place and they were also put in

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    This paper will be explaining feudalism in the medieval ages from the 9th to the 15th century. Feudalism was the form of government that emerged during this time due to the lack of central authority and dominated rural life. After the fall of the Western empire, kingdoms began to emerge as effective centralized units of government but the true power lay in the hands of the local elites not the king . In the feudal society, the king granted large pieces of land called fiefs to noblemen and bishops

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