Some serfs had their own small farms, where they grew food to feed their families.
Explanation:
Servitude (from the Latin servus) was a form of social and legal contract typical of feudalism whereby one person - the servant, usually a peasant - is left in service and subject to the lordship of another - the feudal lord, usually a nobleman or a high ecclesiastical dignitary, or even an institution such as a monastery. During the Middle Ages, a servant was a person who served in conditions close to slavery. The main difference concerning a slave was that, in general, it could not be sold or separated from the land he worked on and that he was legally a "free man." The feudal lord had the power to decide on numerous matters of the life of his servants and their possessions. The servant could not betray the feudal lord since he supplied him with housing, part of the crops and his garments. Characteristic of the serfdom of a servant was the set of consigned obligations, such as the inability of the servant to acquire or sell real estate, submission to the political, judicial and fiscal authority of the feudal lord, the obligation to provide military services to his lord and the delivery of part of his work or product. The condition of a servant was hereditary and he could not leave his land without his lord's permission.
Overall, democracy is the best form of government, because it is morally the most justifiable, although democratic governments today can be improved. Hope that helps
One of the main reasons why the Persian Gulf War is cited by some as an event that fueled Islamic extremism is because it involved a lot of military intervention from the West (specifically the US) that led to many Arab deaths.
In terms of the position of the United States, the policy was one of "containment," in which the Us tried to stop the spread of communism through proxy wars and covert operations. For the USSR, they tried to take over as much new territory as possible.
