Our political system was shaped by feudal traditions.

There were revolts of the feudal lords even in Burgundy.

La Jacquerie (1828) dramatic scenes about a peasant insurrection in feudal times.

The feudal lands were mostly settled by çura (serfs).

In this way, loyalty to feudal domains was supplanted with loyalty to the state.

They formed the nuclei of the major feudal states that comprised the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation.

Moreover, feudalism was dying, and the feudal armies controlled by the barons became obsolete.

Vizcaino arrived in Japan in 1611 and had many meetings with the Shogun and feudal lords.

In 1142 Afonso Henriques gave Leiria its first foral (compilation of feudal rights) to stimulate the colonisation of the region.

In Herodotus's version, Harpagus, seeking vengeance, convinced Cyrus to rally the Persian people to revolt against their feudal lords, the Medes.

Uniting all this into one cohesive unit was a formidable task and a constant struggle between those who wore the crown of France and its feudal lords.

Nevsky tried to strengthen his authority at the expense of the boyars and at the same time suppress any anti Mongol and anti Muscovite uprisings in the country (Novgorod uprising of 1259).

During the Edo period, the area now known as Mie Prefecture consisted of several feudal domains, each ruled by an appointed lord.

Occasionally they were sold within the Khanate as slaves ( qol ) and sometimes were settled on feudal lands to become çura later.

Several of the oldest feudal branches of the House of Grimaldi appeared during these conflicts, such as the branches of Antibes, Beuil, Nice, Puget, and Sicily.

Thus the northern Sudan and Sahelian Savannah region of the country is made up of Muslim majority, while the southern population was predominantly Christian and Animist.

Tribal cultures were formalized into what we would call feudal systems, and many rights and obligations were assumed by the monarchy and related aristocracy.

At the time, Zhao Zheng was still young, so Lü Buwei acted as the regent prime minister of the State of Qin, which was still waging war against the other six states.

In August 1774 Turgot was appointed to be minister of finance, and in the space of two years he introduced many anti mercantile and anti feudal measures supported by the king.

Scholars believe that five centuries of these practices slowly eroded the economic power of the pharaoh, and that the economy could no longer afford to support a large centralized administration.

Zogu's government followed the European model, though large parts of Albania still maintained a social structure unchanged from the days of Ottoman rule, and most villages were serf plantations run by the Beys.

The great landowners (shugo (governors) and jitō (manor's lord), with their political independence and their tax exemptions were impoverishing the government and undermining its authority, and Kitabatake Chikafusa, Go Daigo's future chief adviser, discussed the situation in his works on succession.

Rise of nationalism Prior to 1868, most Japanese more readily identified with their feudal domain rather than the idea of Japan as a whole.

With Prussia, the Brandenburg Hohenzollern dynasty now held a territory free of any feudal obligations, which constituted the basis for their later elevation to kings.

In 983 AD Udine was mentioned for the first time, with the donation of the Utinum castle by emperor Otto II to the Patriarchs of Aquileia, then the main feudal lords of the region.

Advanced studies and growing applications of neo Confucianism contributed to the transition of the social and political order from feudal norms to class and large group oriented practices.

These forces were either feudal levies, drawn up by local nobles for a limited period of service during a campaign, or, increasingly, mercenaries, who were expensive but more flexible and often more skilled.

Uniquely in Europe, these horsemen comprised a militia cavalry force with no feudal links, being under the sole control of the king or the count of Castile because of the charters (or fueros ).

Mustafa Kemal attributed the rebellion to certain notables rather than a section of the population, who had been found guilty by the courts (kanunen mucrim olan bazi muteneffizan) and who used the mask of religion to conceal the interests of landlords, feudal tribal leaders and other reactionaries on 7 March 1925.

After the conquest and pacification of the southern side of the Douro river after 1035, with the exodus or expulsion of the Muslim populations, leaving behind semi abandoned fertile lands, colonists from the north settled in exchange for better feudal contracts with the newly appointed lords.

Followed by short appointments of Tsutsui Junkei and Toyotomi Hidenaga by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to the lord, the Tokugawa Shogunate ultimately ruled the city of Nara directly, and most parts of Yamato province with a few feudal lords allocated at Kōriyama, Takatori and other places.

Ivan revized the law code, creating the Sudebnik of 1550, founded a standing army (the streltsy), established the Zemsky Sobor (the first Russian parliament of the feudal Estates type) and the council of the nobles (known as the Chosen Council), and confirmed the position of the Church with the Council of the Hundred Chapters, which unified the rituals and ecclesiastical regulations of the whole country.