The Impact of the Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War contributed to the decline of feudalism by helping to shift power from feudal lords to monarchs and common people.
When the Black Death swept over Europe and wiped out a third of its population, it also destroyed Feudalism. Peasants were free to leave the lands of the lords to try to find higher wages because of the huge labor shortages. The land that had usually been the primary source of wealth was now worthless.The great population loss wrought by the plague brought favorable results to the surviving peasants in England and Western Europe, such as wage increases and more access to land, and was one of the factors in the ending of the feudal system.The factors responsible for the decline of feudalism were: Development of new towns and cities. Peasants revolt. Emergence of middle class.There were many causes for the breakdown of the feudal system. You will explore three of these causes: political changes in England, a terrible disease, and a long series of wars. In England, several political changes in the 12th and 13th centuries helped to weaken feudalism.
U.S Democracy is a Republican Democracy where the EVERY CITZEN is allowed to vote. in Ancient Greece, they have a Direct Democracy where ONLY adult males where permitted to vote, and the people where allowed to make desicions for bills and laws where in the US that is not allowed.
An important distinction exists between law and ethics. Obeying the law is the minimum level of ethical conduct enforced in society; ethical behavior includes more than simply legal behavior. This requirement has given corporations strong incentives to formulate codes of ethics in order to win investor confidence.
