Feudalism was a combination of legal and
military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th
centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around
relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or
labor.
Medieval
feudal economies
- Long distance spatial relations and interactions between and among the existed nation were rarely seen.
- Relations between nations were regional and limited in scope
- Economy functioned under a feudalistic structure
- Adoption of changes are slow and slower on town and other areas, because the conception of life which emanated from the dominant social institutions of that time ‘church’
- Commercial development and industrial activities driven with the help of ‘church’
- Long-distance interaction occurred during tribal feuds, and territory expansionary wars.
- Space economy was domestic, local, regional at most.
- Advance technology played insignificant rule as it remained unveiled.
