What is Feudalism

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What is Feudalism?

• A caste system
• A property system
• A military system
• Based on a religious concept of rank with God as
  the supreme overlord

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Feudalism, cont.

• Vassal
• A dependent tenant
• Serfs
• At the bottom, not free to leave the land they
  tilled
• Influenced aspects of life, art, and literature
  in the middle ages
• Knighthood and code of chivalry