• Wugmeister
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    63 months ago

    How was the pike responsible for destroying the feudal system?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      233 months ago

      The development of pike and pike tactics in the late 13th-early 14th century was a major contributor to the decline of the importance of aristocratic heavy cavalry in warfare. They didn’t lose all importance, but when a well-trained militia can repel your very-expensive landed warrior elite, you start to do some recalculation of the military budget, so to speak.

      • @[email protected]
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        33 months ago

        One could argue that the nivelization of the populace by the plagues did more to break up the feudal hegemony. If the population declines by a huge amount the power goes back to the people that do the work.

        • @PugJesusOPM
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          23 months ago

          A lot of factors, really. Very happening place, the Late Medieval/Early Renaissance period.