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Since America is bringing back kings what other kind of stuff is on your medieval wishlist? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What are you talking about? Land taxes were one of, if not the, most important tax group in medieval times.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Really? When did it start cause during all my history classes I didn’t hear about it.

I thought taxes were introduced at a certain point, not that they’ve been here since the dark ages.

Do you have anything I can read up on about this?

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Robinhood.jpg

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They had taxes 5000 years ago in ancient Egypt, and probably before that as well.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

Grain or labor, but one way or another you gotta pay the state your taxes!

[–] TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Gotta love how you got downvoted for simply asking questions!

For shame, Lemmy. For shame!

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

I'm a middle age Québécois and we learn about that system in secondary school when we talk about the early ages of New France. AFAIK it was however a bit different from empire to empire. In New France there were seigneurs (lords) holding vast pieces of land for the crown, called a seigneurie (lordship). Within that there were censitaires (serfs) that had to make use of the land and pay taxes.