They were treated terribly often beaten and raped as well as tortured and murdered.
A. People rely too much on device for social interaction.
After the split from the supercontinent, the individual continents underwent a number of changes of their shoreline. For example, the constant flow of water "smoothed" the surface, which meant that in some parts the land decreased (was washed away by the currents) and in other parts the land increased with the accumulation of the material that the currents brought.
This changed the shape of the continents in a way that they no longer "fit" together perfectly.
Feudalism worked easy because it was a system that worked from top to bottom. At the top you had the King which provided money for the Nobility that provided troops and protection for the king. Then the Nobility would bestow the land to his knights that would give the land to the peasants and they owned the land and farmer on it. The knights would provide military service for food that they farmed.
