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    Japanese Feudalism Essay

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    European Feudalism and Japanese Feudalism are very similar when it comes to their government system, which always begins with the highest rank to the lowest rank of both systems in their governments. The highest rank in the Europeans Feudalism system is the king, and for the Japanese, it’s the emperor. The Europeans had one king who owned all power, provides money, recruits the army on demand, and grants land by the lord. Japanese Feudalism is a little different for their highest rank. The Japanese

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    Fall of feudalism paper

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    10/30/2013 Quarterly Assessment How did Political, Social and Economic events which occurred during the Middle Ages contribute to the rapid fall of Feudalism and increase the foundation of nation states? Since politics and social matters are so closely founded the way that these two subcategories of the middle ages clashed against the Feudal way of organizing everything in the middle ages are. Politically kings ruled the way that everyone lived and by doing so this would later on provoke

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    Feudalism was a very popular social system in the Medieval ages, and provided a give and take system for both parties. It was a fairly simple system, those of nobility or higher power would give up some of their land (also called a fief) to the peasants (or serfs) and offered them protection in exchange for them working the land and being sent out to war when needed. This allowed for both parties to gain something out of the transaction and was the basis of the relationship between a lord and a vassal

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    Feudalism was the social structure of Europe during the Medieval times, and was brought into Europe by William the Conqueror and the Normans after defeating the English at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. The Feudal system was a hierarchy that divided all the people in the country into classes. With Feudalism, everyone had a place to live at and a job to earn money from. The social structure consisted of four classes; the King at the top, the Lords below him, then the Knights, and then the Peasants

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    Vassals were another essential role of feudalism, who had an extremely important relationship with their king, or higher vassal. The vassals job was completely based off of trust with their king. The vassals ruled over land that they were given by their king. In order to be given the land, vassals promise loyalty and military service to their king or lord, this promise was called the Oath of Fealty (Biel 9). Although the land that vassals ruled over technically belonged to their king, when they

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    discoveries and falls. This period began after the fall of the Roman Empire which led to the rise of Feudalism. Post-Classical Europe should be remembered as the Dark Ages because Europe experienced widespread invasions by barbarian hordes  and destruction during this period, the Roman Catholic Church forced Christianity upon the people of Europe, and the political and social concept of Feudalism dominated the region, subjecting the people of Europe to an unequal social hierarchy. Post-Classical

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    Feudalism was established as a political system of power, dispersed and balanced between kings and nobles. Legal and military contracted obligations were between nobility in Europe for lords, vassals and fiefs. The rise of the feudalism system in the Middle Ages was portrayed by population decline, economics and external threat. The Franks were the first to use this system by maintaining a population for agricultural growth and ensuring military protection from threats. The decline of feudalism

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    Medieval Feudalism Essay

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    how Disney-interpretations ignores the level of oppression under feudalism. In the medieval times the social and economic system ran based on the European feudalism, which caused various problems for majority of the population. The Europeans feudalism consisted of 90 percent of their population being peasant, then 5 percent being knights, the other 5 percent being the nobles and royalty. This was the structure of the medieval feudalism and what might have led to the Europe to colonization.

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    Feudalism Vs Manorialism

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    This unit we are learning about the Middle Ages. This consists of learning about manorialism and feudalism. In order understand these concepts, we participated in a simulation during class. Mr. Alihn picked the lord, and from there the lord assigned us our jobs as citizens. However, in the Middle Ages, your job in the manner would be based on what class your family was born into. We rolled dice to decide factors such as our age, amount of kids, and amount of land. The photo attached gives you a

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    Feudalism Vs Manorialism

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    each one followed this system to make it function. A farmer was part of both these systems they were very important in the Middle Ages even though they were lower class. Feudalism and manorialism impacted the middle ages but another portion of the middle ages involved farmers they made sure the monarch functioned correctly Feudalism was a big in the middle ages, it basically built the monarch and how it worked. There were many parts to the feudal system and how

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