Gunnell once said, “Feudalism came from the Latin word for estate or land, fief, and is sometimes called system of fiefdoms” (“Effects of Feudalism in the Middle Ages”). The system was created so that the wealthy could protect the poor, and in return the poor would give the wealthy their loyalty. Feudalism was a social, political, and economical system that ranked the people of Europe from the filthy rich to the dirt poor. This local government eventually formed into a dominant social system in medieval Europe called Feudalism. This altered the forms of government seen in early medieval period form an empirical government to a local government. The church began to be seen as a form of local government for the people. Corrick stated, “One difference between the two sections of the church was that, in the west, the head was the pope, and in the east, it was the Byzantine emperor” (Corrick 28).
A Christian church survived the fall of the empire, however, the church split its organization into two. A new religion, Christianity, began to spread throughout the country. The Anglo-Saxons split up the land and brought about their own morals and cultures to form this changing country. The decline of Rome happened because of lack of leadership, weak military, and poor villagers.
The new era began with a fall of an empire that was invaded by Germanic tribes that were best known as the Anglo-Saxons. The Medieval period began after the fall of the Roman Empire and before the rise of the Renaissance, the Medieval Period was run on a feudalistic government, which is a social class system that determined the lives of the British people and gave them no social mobility. According to Green, “Power tends to flow into hands of local lords who can protect the peasants better than the state can” (Green). These drastic changes began to have an impact on the British people. Britain was experiencing many changes, and it began to shift from an empirical government to a feudalistic form of government. If you were wealthy you had power, production, and peasants. The Medieval period was driven by the wealth and status of the people. The Effects of Feudalism on British People
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