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by stu432 1145 days ago
Feudalism didn't end in violent land reform, it largely ended after a pandemic that killed off a significant number of the workforce and it became a sellers market for the serfs. Turns out we just crippled the world economy for decades avoiding the sequel.
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There is more to human history than Western European history. Feudalism has emerged and failed in many places.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reforms_by_country