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Feudalism is explained as an economy and political order built around maintaining expensive knights and fortified local lords, leaving the king closer to a figurehead than an absolute ruler.
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Feudalism is explained as an economy and political order built around maintaining expensive knights and fortified local lords, leaving the king closer to a figurehead than an absolute ruler.
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"Again, this is pretty self -sufficient. The Vikings are able to build their own ships very quickly and repair them. And they are able..."
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"...feudalism comes from. What makes feudalism stick is the idea of castles. So feudalism is about decentralization, where the knights and the lords have..."
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"...grandiose nation -building projects and self -congratulatory pledges to uphold Cloud Castle abstractions like the rule -based international order. These past leaders neglected and..."
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"...you have tools and you have weapons um then you have castles knights and now you have steamships okay so it's all part of..."
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"...the local regions because each region has their own army with castles. So it's very hard to invade every single part, okay? And so..."
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"...fiefdom. Right? And you couldn't really conquer them because they had castles. And they had, and they were, like, in mountains. And they were..."
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