Decentralized Government: Feudalism

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Decentralized Government Feudalism

• Lord and vassal
• Fiefs land given in return for military service
• Catholic Church was also a
  feudal landlord

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Decentralized economy Manorialism

• Safety in the countryside under rule of great
  lords
• Self-sufficiency, subsistence agriculture
• Barter economy Decline of trade and towns

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Decentralized economy Manorialism
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Social Structure The Three Estates
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Social Structure The Three Estates
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Social Structure The Three Estates

• Very hierarchical
• Little social mobility