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Feudalism came about as a system that provided government and security in an time when a strong centralized government had collapsed and nothing comparable had risen to replace it.

Feudalism is a decentralized government, economic, and social system in which power is decentralized, hierarchical and based on mutual obligation. The feudal hierarchy had a monarch at the top, who operated in mutual support and obligation with a hierarchy of lords, who operated in mutual support and obligation with lesser aristocracy, and freemen, with serfs at the bottom. The point of the hierarchy was to provide security at each level in times when the greatest nations were vulnerable to local attacks to which they could not respond efficiently.

The system was moderated by the obligations each person entered into, including the kings. It was also, and independently, moderated by the church.

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