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feudal system

NOUN
  1. the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war

How To Use feudal system In A Sentence

  • The capitalist system is drastically different from the feudal system of medieval Europe. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies
  • Such absolute power can easily corrupt, and it is no wonder that the feudal system in Pakistan is humanly degrading.
  • Another Japanese tradition of long standing is known in modern times as Bushido, which is identical with a deep-rooted conception having its origins in the early feudal system of Japan. China and the Post-War World
  • Yet what's truly gripping is the account of crofting life under the brutal and unconscionable feudal system. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the chief lessons he left them wrought well for the casting out of all with which the feudal system had debased the patriarchal; and the poverty shared with the clan had powerfully helped: it was spoken against the growing talionic regard of human relations -- that, namely, the conditions of a bargain fulfilled on both sides, all is fulfilled between the bargaining parties. What's Mine's Mine — Complete
  • As part of the feudal system, primogeniture maintained the political and social status of the aristocracy.
  • After the Ottoman Empire gained general control of the area in 1516, Lebanon continued to maintain a feudal system of rule by local chieftains.
  • Last year, he attacked the Scottish Executive for breaching his human rights by abolishing the feudal system.
  • A similar pattern evolved in countries which were in the Roman empire or were part of the feudal system.
  • The feudal system meant that knights had to provide the king with soldiers when the king demanded them.
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