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The origins of the manorial system can be traced back to the Roman Empire, and the origins of the feudal hierarchy are natural in a state dependent on military structures or similar command structures for distribution of power. Using a definition that combines manorialism and a hierarchical command structure would make feudalism merely the product of systems already in use in the Roman Empire. All that is needed to complete it is rewarding members of the hierarchy with manors appropriate to their station.
If we use the narrow view, that feudalism is a system characterized by a weak central government and a need to respond more quickly to emergencies than such a government can act, then the system of feudalism originated in the time of the decline of the Carolingian Empire, with a hundred years of the death of Charlemagne, when the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire were rising to take its place. During this time, the central governments of both of these later states were weak and in a turmoil, and the various areas within them were under constant threat of attacks from such groups as the Vikings.
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Why is feudalism important?
Feudalism was the social structure prevalent in Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance. It provided security in the absence of sovereign nations.
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At the 5th century Germans conquered France.Germans are the oldest population on Europe.
What is the name of the political economic and social system in medeivel Europe in which land was held by vassals in exchange for military and other services given to overlords?
Feudalism
How were the growing tensions between the nobility and the emerging monarchies a key to explaining some of the reasons for the decline of feudalism in Europe by the end of the fourteenth century?
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