HIST 1001 Lecture : Final Notes From Girl
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Definition- created a sense of corporate responsibility and obligation that is the foundation of participatory government: stresses corporate responsibility. A system of government: concerned with security, welfare, justice, taxation, etc. Government at its most primitive: based on the loyalty of one person to another. Provided order in time of chaos after fall of roman empire: the roman empire ruled in cities, feudalism is government created by the countryside (rural environment). This is made into a system under charlemagne. Dukes (kings" vassals: duchies- given a large piece of land with lots of manors. Knights (viscounts" vassals: they live in the manors, feudum- grant of land. How it works: king would want to fight a group, calls on his dukes, the dukes call on their counts, counts call on their viscounts, etc. Peasants were not vassals (not warriors: they belonged to the manor. As generations go on this system gets more and more complicated.
