Category: Feudalism

Feudalism, in a nutshell, is a system that was used commonly in the middle ages. The system revolves around land ownership and duties. In this system, the king owned all the land and could choose to gift his land to lords and nobles, often called manors, in exchange for support. Then the lords and nobles…

Pakistan has faced major challenges in its socioeconomics situation over past seventy years. However not all the problems have been overcome. Some of the key problems of Pakistan includes water scarcity, hunger, poverty, illiteracy, poor health conditions, unemployment, land management, corruption, drug abuse and overpopulation etc. Land Management A nexus of officers and politicians, pursuing…

Describe, in as much detail as you can, the process by which material goods and services used in daily life are produced under capitalism. Describe three ways in which this process is different than feudalisms productive process. Under capitalism material goods and services are produced on a daily basis under the term called capital. Capital…

It has been 25 full years since South Africa has become a democratic country but that is still very questionable seeing that the majority of the population still suffers from the acts of the apartheid still to this day. People are still experiencing the social injustices and inequalities and even in the greater part of…

Introduction Karl Marx was a great philosopher, social theorist and economist. He was most famous for his theories about capitalism. Marx utilized the term modes of production to allude specific organization of economic production in a given society. Mode of production refers to the to the differed ways that individuals on the whole produce the…

Feudalism started in 800 C.E to create order and make Europe civil again. This came because the people needed protection from barbarians. Feudalism is a medieval government and the people needed it to keep control and have a leader. The Classes of the Feudal System The King The King was responsible for his kingdom. There…

Feudalism was the social system/hierarchy in medieval Europe which defined what the people were and their roles. The lowest class were the peasants who worked the land for the nobles and knights so that in return they would get protection. The third class of people were the knights who fought for the kings and nobles.…

The Black Death was an overwhelming illness that spread all through Europe amid the 1300s. It killed an expected one point five million of the four million individuals living in Europe around then. Before the Black Death tainted anybody, individuals had just made the ideal condition for the illness to thrive. Because of the vast…

At the beginning of the Middle Ages, Europe was split into small regions controlled by local lords and each of the lords had their collection of rules to follow; this also led to a lot of strife and chaos. The most influential monarch during this period was a Frankish King called Charlemagne, whose empire covered…

Feudal systems were established in both medieval Europe, circa 500 BC to 1500 BC, and Japan, circa 1185 BC to 1868 BC. They were a time of insecurity, crusades, and disease. The two nations had similar hierarchies: headed by a king/emperor and surrounded by powerful barons/shoguns. It was hypothesized that feudal Japan was a safer…