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Noun(1) (2) the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C(3) vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war

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(1) In China, feudalism , as a social system, collapsed nearly a century ago when the country became a republic in 1911.(2) This was the antithesis of centralized bureaucratic feudalism in China.(3) It was consequently a system in many respects more feudal than feudalism .(4) This development of commercial capitalism in the early C17th makes a link with Medieval feudalism untenable.(5) Societies became marked, first, by feudalism , in which control was exercised through the nobility.(6) The point I am trying to make to you is that notions of allegiance come out of English medieval feudalism .(7) Of course, if we were to ask a medieval king to describe feudalism , he would not really know what it was we were asking of him.(8) Under the feudalism of medieval Europe, for example, the peasants worked while the lords ruled and were free from the burden of work.(9) Feudal services and the whole concept of feudalism kept the peasant poor.(10) What mattered about 1066 was that it brought both Norman kingship and French feudalism into England.(11) In Britain it was not until after the Norman Conquest that a full system of feudalism came into existence.(12) Increasing attention is being paid to the fact that, initially, modern states were not the only dominant units to emerge from feudalism .(13) There were also refinements, if not the introduction, of the system of landholding and social relations known as feudalism .(14) The revolution had overthrown the brutal domination of feudalism and ended crown monopolies over trade.(15) This abolition of feudalism resulted in a controlled taxation system.(16) Both had called for redemption of dues and abolition of serfdom and labour services; but others saw that feudalism did not end there.