>>29897>We're talking about early-medieval feudalism, where any monetary systems had collapsed, and the economic and social stability afforded by feudalism actually mattered. Taxes are not necessarily paid in money, in fact most peasants could never afford to pay it with money in the Medieval age outright. It was paid to the Church and State with agricultural and livestock produce. In essence it was a racket like with the Mafia… or modern capitalist states today; you live on our land so you pay for your 'protection' and for residing here or you get hurt. Why do you think Robin Hood was created and became a popular folk character? Honestly with how hard you argue for feudalism in this context, you sound like an ancap.
>any lasting societal progress lags behind the development of the agricultural base; advancing without such a firm foundation would be blatant adventurism. Rome didn't advance without firm foundation, if it did then it wouldn't have lasted for the greater part of a millenia.
>crop rotationFFS that's not an early medieval thing, that happened in Rome too since at least ~200BC The Medieval system simply solidified the 3 field system that late-Rome did. The 4 field system was part of the Agricultural Revolution, during the Enlightenment and after The Renaissance.
>plough Ploughs have been around since mankind first began to work the earth in earnest. Medieval plows were developments of existing Roman plows. These are not significant by any
leap of the imagination.
>some hunter-gatherer activity continued being necessary until their advent. HAHAHA Hunter-gatherer activity continued throughout the early and middle Medieval Age, but slowly stopped being relevant later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJnIZiH5fyM >why you're so insistent of dating back the Renaissance far before any time i've seen it outlined before. I'm not dating it back further. The Renaissance is widely acknowledged to have begun officially in 1350 as defined by Italian historians during the 15th century, however the ProtoRenaissance began earli
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