ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Feudalism, Buzkashi
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Horsemanship- horse used to herd cattle and transport people. Intensive agriculture (planting and growing on permanent plots) Unlike horticulturalism, the environment is radically altered in order to produce arable land and better harvests. May have the court and noble residences, artisans, traders, priests, art, workshops, theatre, musicians, schools. Country: may have land-owner lords, peasants (great majority of the population-people who farm the land) Feudalism: depend economically and politically on the lord and vassalage: every lord himself who is not a king, he is a vassal of the king.