utually protective relationship for the kings and serfs. When the German invaders conquered the western Roman Empire in the 5th century, they destroyed the professional Roman army and substituted their own armies, made up of warriors who served their chieftains for honor and booty. The warriors fought on foot and lived off the countryside. As long as they fought one another, they needed no cavalry. But when the Muslims, the Vikings, and the Magyars invaded Europe in the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries, the Germans found themselves unable to deal with these Rapid & shy moving armies. So they started to get horses to help fight, but war horses were expensive, and training to use them took years of practice and the help of the land and vassals (from a Gaelic word meaning servant) were needed to help train the horses and, The vassal not only took the oath loyalty, which everyone owed to his lord, but also a special oath of homage to the feudal lord who gave him land. The Lord and vassal were interlocked in a bunch of mutual rights and obligations, to the advantage of both. Where the lord owed his vassal protection and the vassal owed his lord a specified number of days annually in military service and supplies of goods, and the lord was expected to provide a military for his king. With that feudalism was a political as well as military institution, one based upon a contract between two individuals, both of whom held rights in the land one worked. Because the military service of the KNIGHTS was a central element of feudalism, they made things like the introduction of heavy cavalry during the 8th century and the introduction of the stirrup, which greatly increased the efficiency of fighting on horseback for the knights the Long bow. With that the knight had to be able to maintain expensive equipment and a horse, and with that he would have to practice fighting and teach others how to fight as he got older. So to do that he needed a great deal of wealth to do this if he was supported by the work and labor of his people. The way feudalism works it resembles a pyramid, at the lowest are the vassals ((serf or peasants ) at its base and the true life of the whole thing) and, above them are the lines of authority the knights and, then the lord and, flowing up to the peak of the structure is the king. Common in all, was the process by which one nob

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