Question

How did feudalism work, and why do you think it didn't last?

Answer 1

How it worked:
Feudal society is a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service. The individual who accepted this land became a vassal, and the man who granted the land become known as his liege or his lord.


Why it did not last: The reasons for the decline of Feudalism during the Medieval period of the Middle Ages included: The Crusades and travel during the Middle Ages opened new trade options to England. ... More trade saw the growth of more towns. Peasants moved away from the country into towns they were eventually allowed to buy their freedom.

Answer 2

the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection. It did not work because other countries were progressing while Europe was stuck withe the technology they already had, and everyone worked on farms.

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