HISTORY
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN EUROPE
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Question
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Feudalism began to break down.
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People got very rich
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Governments got weak
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Christianity became less powerful
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Crusades helped to break down feudalism. As kings levied taxes and raised armies, nobles joining the Crusades sold their lands and freed their serfs. As nobles lost power, the kings created stronger central governments. Taxing trade with the East also provided kings with new sources of wealth.
Detailed explanation-2: -By the ninth century, many knights and nobles held estates (fiefs) granted by greater lords in return for military and other service. This feudal system (from the medieval Latin feodum or feudum, fee or fief) enabled a cash-poor but land-rich lord to support a military force.
Detailed explanation-3: -Lords no longer could keep their peasants under their control since all money taken by the lords was wasted during the crusades. This led to peasants being able to buy land for themselves very cheaply and being able to be their own masters, ending the feudal system.
Detailed explanation-4: -Agricultural production decreased due to climate change. Famine. Plague and Black Death. Crusades. Kings monopoly of gunpowder. Peasant Revolts. Emergence of Nation-State.