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Generally? They knew a bit about their leaders, yes, but they were quite unlikely to ever meet them. Their immediate Lord, perhaps, but the way the system worked was a chain, and you usually only were in contact with the step above. The main exceptions would be servants, or people with...

I'm just going to add, Serf was a term that varied in useage. They were almost always tied to a particular location, but not every time, and they were taxed at a much lower rate than many today, but that's more an element of us having more to take now. Sometimes serf pretty much meant slave...

He's saying, as he has before, classic Royalty is usually only one power point, balanced by others in older civ's. Multiple poles means that they have to consider each other before they do anything stupid. I'm not sure it's true, haven't done the reserch, but if so, it's not a bad idea at all.

I'm no expert on Confucian anything, but the part I heard was an issue was "Respect and follow your Elder", leading to an incredable lack of change. Heck, China once had guided rockets, flame throwers and the largest, best ships in the world, and all those things got forgotten because they...