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Example sentences for: feudal

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The succession of authoritarian rulers from the Middle Ages to the 18th century — Norman and Angevin French, German emperors, and the Spanish — kept in place a feudal system that has left the region to this day socially backward compared with the north.
Towards the end of the first millennium the land we now call the Netherlands was ruled by a number of feudal lords — assorted counts, dukes, and bishops who had total power over the land and the people who lived on it.
Its social roots still lie deeply in its past as a feudal society of countless closely knit agricultural communities dominated by a small political elite.
In the pleasure quarter of Edo, the feudal divisions between commoners and nobility broke down, and this "floating world" gave birth to new and vigorous forms of popular entertainment.
But important though the resuscitated imperial authority undoubtedly was, the real power under the restoration known as Meiji (“Enlightened Rule”) was in the hands of a new generation of forward-looking administrators, who set about abolishing the ancient feudal apparatus in favor of a modern government based on merit rather than ancestry.