... provided military and political services to the king; they also maintained roads and fortifications of their land. This system became the basis for feudalism, the political and military system of Europe for the next 400 years."(10) Charlemagne tried improving the lives of his subjects with many reforms and laws. The scholars of this time were too parochial minded to seek new knowledge, if they were ... more open-minded things may have changed at a faster pace. Charlemagne instituted many laws; most of these laws were to protect the people ... he ruled. His many reforms included sending...

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