feudal
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Developed by British studio Creative Assembly, Total War has sold more than 35 million copies since its launch 25 years ago, with instalments set in ancient Rome, feudal Japan and ancient Egypt.
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The 19th century gave us Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” about an American who finds himself in feudal England.
By the accession of Leopold II in 1790, an empire based on a “feudal hierarchy of status” found itself in the age of Romantic nationalism, democracy and “enlightened ridicule.”
For most of the 20th century, the prevailing view of Southern plantations was one of feudal estates with accordingly primitive systems for the extraction of labor and thereby profit from bonded toil.
The powers of a landowner can range from the almost full sovereignty enjoyed by a mighty feudal noble to the essentially nonexistent rights I have over the protected swampland outside my window.
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