Feudalism was the way of life for the people of the middle ages. Feudalism took the place of the Roman government in Europe. It started after the fall of Rome. At the time‚ Europe was lawless and violent with no central government to rule anyone (Biel‚ Timothy Levi 10). Feudalism was an economic and military society that is based in oaths and contracts. This means that feudalism intertwined the military and the economy of medieval Europe and in order to sustain life there was need for oaths and loyalty
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The term feudalism is recent‚ first appearing in French in 1823‚ Italian in 1827‚ English in 1839‚ and in German in the second half of the nineteenth century. It derived from "feodal" which was used in seventeenth-century French legal treatises and translated into English legal treatises as "feodal government". In the 18th century Adam Smith popularized the forms "feudal government" and "feudal system" in his book Wealth of Nations. In the 19th century the adjective "feudal" evolved into a noun:
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Although‚ the reasons why these two areas turned to feudalism are different‚ both societies had many centuries of this similar type of government. European feudalism was influenced most likely by the fall of the Roman empire and Germanic tribes (and other external forces) who had tried to invade them. Japan‚ on the other hand‚ adopted the system to settle internal disputes in the country and to split up the land between the nobility; Japanese feudalism developed because of internal attacks by groups
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Political turmoil and constant warfare led to the rise of the European feudalism‚ a political and economic system based on land ownership and personal loyalty. During the Middle Ages invaders raised havoc all over Europe‚ and as a result people looked at local leaders for protection‚ causing kings to lose political power. A new social order was set up as well as a different economic system. Feudalism changed the economic‚ social‚ and political systems severely‚ and made the way we know the Middle
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Feudalism began between the 8th and 9th centuries. It was first recognized in France‚ and later spread to most countries of western Europe. When Charlemagne died there was no strong ruler to take his place. That was when feudalism was established as the main system of government and way of life in Medieval Europe. Europe was politically divided. It was hit by several invasions of the Vikings‚ the Magyars‚ Muslim pirates‚ and others. People could no longer look to a central ruler for protection. They
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Feudalism is defined as a system of government and landownership. Feudalism arose because of a disagreement between Rollo‚ the head of a Viking army‚ and Charles the Simple‚ the king of France. Rollo had been looting a river valley for years‚ and Charles the Simple‚ with little power‚ did little about it. One day‚ Charles the Simple decided to make a deal with Rollo. The deal was Charles would give Rollo a piece of land in exchange for peace from his Viking army. More and more of these agreements
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Feudalism was a social system present in early Japanese and European times. The people were separated into different classes depending on their birth‚ wealth‚ and other factors. Feudalism in Europe and Japan were alike and different in many ways. One way that feudalism in Japan and Europe were alike was that the soldiers/warriors in both cultures had a code of honor that they followed. The samurai’s (Japanese warriors) code of honour was called bushido. In bushido a true samurai would be “loyal‚
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Feudalism‚ a dominant social system in both Europe and Japan‚ became a remarkably important aspect of medieval life. It was a response to military necessity during a time when there were no armies or governments with the funding to support such defense. In this social system‚ the nobility held the lands given to them by the Crown in exchange for military service and in which vassals were tenants of the nobles while the peasants were
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Feudalism began in France around A.D. 900 and spread. The feudal hierarchy was an arrangement of rank resembling a pyramid. At the top of the pyramid was the king. In the feudal relationship the king was the suzerain‚ or lord‚ of a group of dukes and counts who were his vassals. Each of these vassals was in turn lord to lesser vassals‚ who had even less important vassals. At the bottom of the pyramid were the knights‚ who had no vassals. Lord and vassal owed certain obligations to each other. The
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Feudalism was dominant in most parts of Europe for over seven centuries‚ however it reached it’s zenith during eleventh to thirteen century….. Though many of its institutions were survived till the end of the eighteenth century. There were several factors which led to the decline of feudal system. The holy roman empire ‚ which came into existence during this period represented a force which kept in chek the evil tendencies of the german feudalism. The Papacy rendered valuable
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