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The entire government and political system in the middle ages was feudalism. This means that there was a patchwork of holdings by men who were able to take and hold on to sections of land. This would change off and on depending on who was the strongest and whom they decided to attack. There were no "countries" as we know it.

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The decentralized government is called feudalism.

The term feudalism is a bit confusing because it means different things to different people. Some people regard it as identical to manorialism. Many historians, however, define it a political system with a decentralized government and manorialism.

According to the narrower definition, some medieval monarchies were feudal and some were not. They Holy Roman Empire was feudal throughout its existence. France was feudal through most of its existence in the Middle Ages. England was briefly feudal, while the Normans were in power, and the system of decentralized feudalism quickly disappeared under Henry II. The Byzantine Empire was never really feudal.

The decentralized government was a system that allowed threats to the country to be met by local leadership. This meant that such things as Viking raids could be dealt with when national military systems would not have time to respond. It also meant that local uprisings of peasants, such as threatened the Norman kings of England, could be met quickly. But It weakened nations to some degree; for example, feudalism made it hard for France to fight England in the Hundred Years' War.

Feudalism was never an attractive form of government in places where the country was small to begin with, such as among the Christian kingdoms of Spain. And certainly, it had no place where monarchies did not exist, such as the republics of Italy.

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