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    promising protection to the vassals. The vassals would then provide their lords with forty days of annual military services‚ money‚ advice‚ and loyalty in exchange as part of the feudal contract. The term "vassals" is a more of a title than a name because anyone could be a vassal‚ including a king. Fiefs would

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    some aspects of our society today. Once we’ve truly understood what a feudal society entails‚ we can begin to look at today and see how some things never change. Feudalism structured society creating a pyramid of power and defined social classes. The feudal system was based on rights and obligation‚ so a lord granted land to a vassal in exchange for military protection. It all depended on the control of land. The structure of feudal society was much like a pyramid. The pyramid determined a person’s

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    Feudalism began in France around A.D. 900 and spread. The feudal hierarchy was an arrangement of rank resembling a pyramid. At the top of the pyramid was the king. In the feudal relationship the king was the suzerain‚ or lord‚ of a group of dukes and counts who were his vassals. Each of these vassals was in turn lord to lesser vassals‚ who had even less important vassals. At the bottom of the pyramid were the knights‚ who had no vassals. Lord and vassal owed certain obligations to each other. The

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    east river I gradually developed confidence in the stories I had lived through during those years on the farm. I realized that I was in unique position to write these stories for a western audience‚ stories about the farm and the old feudal ways‚ the dissolving feudal order and the way coming‚ the sleek business man from the cities. I resigned from the law firm‚ returned to Pakistan‚ and began writing these stories that make up “In Other Rooms‚ Other Wonders”.”(Jahangir‚

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    Communist Manifesto‚ p. 2) Now‚ according to Karl Marx‚ it’s the time for the proletarians to take power from the bourgeois and create a new world order. In the document‚ Karl Marx also argued that in the process of doing their job in wiping out the feudal system‚ bourgeois created the system that will lead to their own collapse‚ which is full of exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth. (The Communist Manifesto‚ p. 4) Hence‚ like every time when there is a strong divide between classes in the

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    LESSON SEVEN – NORMAN ENGLAND AFTER THE CONQUEST The reason why the Norman Conquest was so significant is that it changed the entire way England was run. It introduced a new set of rulers‚ a new ruling system‚ a new language and a new culture. FEUDALISM One of the most important changes was to do with the ownership of land. William introduced a system of land ownership that was called feudalism. Firstly‚ William seized by force the land belonging to important Anglo-Saxons and claimed it all as his

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    The knights and Samurai both learned in different ways‚ in different environments. In this paper you will also read about the view of women from the Samurai and knights. Lastly‚ you will also learn how the Samurai and knights viewed education in Feudal Japan. The time era‚ they existed in the 8th through the 13th century. Time era that the knights and Samurai started learning was 1400-1600. The knights were located in Europe and the Samurai were located in Japan. The knights started learning at

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    History has been viewed and valued differently throughout time. The style of analysis has changed to fit the views‚ feeling and morals of the time period. Dante Alighieri‚ Christinia de Pizan and Niccolo Machiavelli illustrate this. Being grouped now‚ their views differed and time has changed the meaning of their writings. Dante had his origins in 13th to 14th century Florence‚ Florence was then a form of commune reigning the city-state. Florence had no single head of state but was led by elected

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    the classical era‚ a reinvestment and reform in the church‚ and a precursor to the golden age of art. The government of the middle ages‚ as convoluted and variable as it was‚ ended up giving way to a powerful revival of monarchial control. The feudal age had erupted due to the monarchs inability to rule and defend holistically it’s country during Norse and foreign invasions in the 700’s to 1000’s AD. The emphasis shifted instead to local lords and nobles who drew the king’s power for greater

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    Chinese feudal society. The red wine and the red sorghum depicted in the film represents the passions of a woman that is impregnated by a bandit before her marriage day. Traditionally‚ Jiu-er is a young woman that must marry a much older man‚ yet her virginity is violated before she is married. Afterwards‚ she becomes impregnated as a symbol of the passions of infidelity with the bandit‚ which also defines the use of red in the production of wine in the

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