what was feudalism?
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So basically feudalism was a system of governance in which all the people living in a certain area(of a certain caste but generally the majority) were the subjects of a feudal lord. The land was all considered the property of the lord who had it by the grace of a higher power (king, God, etc) and the lord allowed the peasant class to live on it in exchange for working the land or their trade and providing a portion (often significant) of the fruits of their labor to the lord in the form of taxes. They also would swear fealty to their lords and may need to serve in the military if called on to do so (for the men). Basically they had no rights and the lord controlled everything autocratically and taxed everything.
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