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I think that in a sense it never left. I can only speak of my once country, England, but I suspect it was similar elsewhere. If one looks at who owns the land, most of it is still owned by catholic Norman families. We still very much live in a society where a few own virtually everything and the masses provide that wealth. We still go to war for them when they tell us. If anything, right now I see a growing strength and a more obvious feudalism appearing.

Feudalism has nothing to do with distribution of wealth but is an arrangement where part of the population is required on a non-voluntary basis to render services to another part in return for certain rights and protections. In other words, not at all like the contemporary UK, which is a constitutional democracy.

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I don't know what feudalism is. ?

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Feudalism could never evolve because the Catholic Church was the predominate force in society - that's the reason it's known as the Dark Ages. Glad it's gone; too bad the same can't be said about the Catholic Church.

Sinbad Level 5 Oct 23, 2018

The Dark Ages is a different time period to the feudal era. Its name comes from the lack of recorded history & has nothing to do with Catholicism.

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Feudalism in Europe only collapsed because the plague devastated the work force and shifted power from the nobility to labour.
Therefore it can be assumed that for it to have continued the cull of the population must not have happened, so a population explosion would have lead to starvation, revolution, and the institution of an even more totalitarian set of war based regimes, a culture of fighting for space and resources with an agrarian slave underclass to supply them, this would in time of lead to further spreading of empires the earlier discovery of Australasia and the Americas probably for purely conquest and extermination of the indigenous inhabitants.
Possibly need and war would lead to earlier introduction of industry and technology probably by the church since they had a stranglehold on knowledge, so a theocratic empire is not outside the bounds of possibility with the concomitant extermination of misbelievers and heretics.
By the the time we reach the 21st century it would be a miracle if civilisation survived at all, imagine an 16th and seventeenth century mentality armed with atomic weapons and driven by religious fanaticism with no opposing secular authority.
The probability is a world made up of small settlements and city states scratching out a living in a wasteland.

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There is no "it" to be left in tact. It was a dynamic system that had to change

Mitch07102 Level 8 Oct 23, 2018
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What an interesting question! Certainly it’s death nell was the introduction of the professional soldier negating the need for landowners to provide to the Crown his tenets at times of war. This dismantling in Europe took from, I think, late C16th to mid C19th in Russia. I can’t see that it could have continued as its existence depended upon external forces, as with most matters, but I’ll have a further ponder as this is just off the top of my head.

Geoffrey51 Level 8 Oct 23, 2018
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Revolution may have removed a few thrones here and there. The Enlightenment may have bequeathed the illusion of universal suffrage. People may even believe themselves to be free. But the balance of power remains as it always has. Society still follows a top down model, and the Rothschild family controls most (if not all) of the World''s banking system.

rcandlish Level 7 Oct 23, 2018
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What makes you think feudalism didn't evolve? Nobody abolished it. It adapted to certain social, economic and technological pressures to the point where it ceased to be the dominant mode of social organisation. What are you actually asking?

Gareth Level 7 Oct 23, 2018
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