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What is the importance of owning land in the Middle Ages

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Under the feudal System land was granted to people for service started at the top with the king granting his land to a barrel for soldiers all the way down to a peasant getting land to grow crops the center of life in the middle ages was the Manor
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If you owned land you were most likely a lord (aristrocrat, rich person) and lords had farmland (crops could be sold for more money) ran by pesants or slaves

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