WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, is a term used to describe the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries.

Detailed explanation-2: -Feudal society is a military hierarchy in which a ruler or lord offers mounted fighters a fief (medieval beneficium), a unit of land to control in exchange for a military service. The individual who accepted this land became a vassal, and the man who granted the land become known as his liege or his lord.

Detailed explanation-3: -A feudal system (also known as feudalism) is a type of social and political system in which landholders provide land to tenants in exchange for their loyalty and service.

Detailed explanation-4: -Feudalism is a form of political organization with three distinct social classes: king, nobles, and peasants. In a feudal society, status is based on land ownership. In Europe, the practice of feudalism ended after the Black Plague decimated the population.

Detailed explanation-5: -Feudalism was a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return. The basic idea of feudalism was that it was a system for structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in return for services.

Detailed explanation-6: -The feudal system was based on a kind of protection system (or even protection racket). A lord accepted pledges of loyalty, called a pledge of fealty, from other free men called his vassals; in return for their support in war he offered them protection and land-grants called fiefs.