Question

Write a four-paragraph argument for or against the usefulness of the feudalist structure. Your assigned audience is a modern business leader. You may choose to create a slide show or other piece of media to accompany your paper. For your research, choose one of the following countries:

France
England
Germany
Make a claim as to whether feudalism helped or hindered your Western European country. Offer the reader strong points supporting your answer.
Address the counter claim to your argument. Offer the reader the specific facts from your research that shows the flaws within the counter claim.
As support for either your claim or counter claim, include how feudalism finished its course in the country you selected.
Include the approximate years when feudalism began and ended in that country.
In addition, explain whether the national leader at the time of feudalism played a part in encouraging or harming feudalism within their country.

Answer 1

stability...uk...william conqueror got & split up land with his buddies (lords)

dont have to spend maintaining an army

instead can raise & draft an army fast

can make peasants declare their loyaty to the ling instead of their bosses the lords

rigid class structure: nobles, priests, and princes) and a peasant class ensured people didn't have to outsource for their needs

in psychology, freud, something like feudalism helped people feel secure as many may have viewed the king as a father figure