HIS109Y1 Lecture : September Notes
Document Summary
Security was offered to society and some form of gov. Social prestige the heads of the system had. Localization of power by people who were able to. Power power is the issue greater than wealth control of land land represented power. Who ever owned land, enjoyed the privilege enjoyed the fact that they could take tariffs from the people, judge the people, and send the people to defend. Real power resided with locality not great jurisdictions. What matters the most is the locality of which you live and who the owner of the place was. Things that people owned gave them power power was in your personal possessions. Military service was linked with public land owners. Someone had to protect you and that was the local authorities. For the back of the horse to help balance you. This made fighting on a horse easier and gave them a military advantage.
