By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to ... Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be dismantled. Fearing powerlessness, the nobility and ...

We were the lowest part of the feudal system. The plague of the 1340s and ... needed to fund another war with France and tried to implement a poll tax. We were expected to pay the same amount ...

His division of land ownership, the feudal system, solved this. 3. Protecting his soldiers and supporters William needed to quickly find a way to protect his supporters and soldiers in England.