After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, Europe fell into what historians have since called the Dark Ages, when law and order supposedly vanished from the once great continent. History also tells us that hundreds of years later, the Catholic Church and the Christian Emperor Charlemagne pushed Europe back into the light of civilization. The union of these two great forces occurred in Rome, on Christmas Day, after Charlemagne crushed a rebellion set against the Church. When Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the alliance between church and monarch had been born, and would become the constant trend of feudalism in the Medieval Ages.
Feudalism, by definition, was a system of rule that depended heavily on the \"divine right\" of kings, or the belief that God had given kings the divine right to rule over other human beings. Due to its inherent characteristics, feudalism provides us with a good example of a caste system, a system that......
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