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Feudalism

The feudal social system is a social system based on the property in the basic means of production by feudal landlords and the exploitation of the surplus-labor of peasants (or serfs). In China, generally speaking, feudalism has lasted for more than 2,000 years since the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In Europe, feudalism experienced a history of more than 1,300 years from the 5th to 18th centuries A.D….

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