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@futurebird The real power of the feudal world was not so much that they controlled a powerful military - all leaders through time have done that. The thing that always strikes me about the feudal era (and to some extent to England today) is how much of the natural world the state directly owned and controlled. The kings owned ALL the land. ALL the animals. ALL the minerals. ANYTHING that needed doing, including producing enough food to survive, had to be done through the approval of monarchs.