HIST 1011 Lecture 10: HIST 1011: Roots of European Hegemony
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How is it that they"re the ones that pull of an astonishingly transformative actions that make the world that we know today. They are largely fearful of invasion by other. They operate before the 1500s that is largely structured by the feudal system. Vast majority of people are peasants not just peasants, but. A serf is someone who is legally bound to the land. They are not free to pick up and migrate wherever they please. They are stuck in place and the person who owns the land owns them as well. Unfree laborers, not slaves, because they cannot be sold on the marketplace and sold somewhere else. Social system that is operates through much of western europe. Most people in the feudal society live a subsistence existence. Provides a common sense of religious identity. Looks to origins in the holy land in a culture that is, in many respects, separate from its own.
