Feudalism: a loosely organized system of rule in which powerful local lords divided their landholdings among lesser lords

It is divided into a social hierarchy where every level had mutual obligations with the others.

Peasants and serfs make up about 90% of the population! all the other levels make up the 10% remaining.

FEUDAL SYSTEM

It was a decentralized political and economic structure.

Feudal government was always an arrangement between individuals, not between nation-states and citizens. It meant that, while individual lords and nobles might be loyal in theory to the king , there was no strong legal tradition to prevent them from declaring war on each other. The bonds of loyalty often grew so entangled that a single knight might find himself owing allegiance to two different lords who were at war with each other. There was no sense of loyalty to a geographic area or a particular race, only a loyalty to a person.