Why do feudal lords oppose the growth of towns?
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Feudal lords had power by retaining not only the lands and $$, but also by restricting the flow of ideas.  When towns form, they bring in not only $$, but also the flow of ideas from other areas.  Once people knew what other options were available (from talking with others), they were no longer satisfied living with the feudal system.  \n\nSince towns also bring a chance for specialization, then it allowed those feudal workers, whose earlier options were reduced only to working on the masters land, some new options. \n\n\nSo basic answer: spread of ideas, spread of $$, new jobs
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?\n\nif people want to keep careret county (wherever that is) the way it is, then development could be viewed as bad.
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You have to check with the Deed restrictions on the property. Some properties, especially in suburban areas, have restrictions as to what type of property can be built on it and what standards it has to meet. If your home is built around others that do have electricity and water, it brings the values of the other homes down, that's why they have the restrictions. Your best bet is to try a rural area and ask a Title company if there are areas that do not have restrictions.
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Society uses many things to justify their problems. But Big City problems\nare problems of circumstance. Humans gather in cities for protection,\nbut after a while the get glutted. There are just too many people competing\nfor the same needs.\nI know it's easy to say. Many have lived there all their lives. But people need to\nstop going to the Big City for "excitement". And more people need to Move from the Big City, to smaller cities where life will be easier for them. Less\nexpensive. Easier to get around.
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The people that lived in New Orleans voted down - Multiple times- raising money/taxes to upgrade the levees. They were stupid to not improve their defenses when a huge section of the city was below sea level.
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As you said your thoughts may be your own psuedo intellectual ramblings, I am assuming you understand the defenition of "feudalism". I am just not sure a country the size of America could possibly fall under the title of being a feudalistic society. If we bring the Free Trade into the equation, then we are also bringing all the countries who are involved with Free Trade under the same defenition of "feudalism". This seems just plain impossible, just for the size of who all would be under the direct controll of one individual who has the complete nominion of his/her people. So, in order for Free Trade to ever bring any form of "feudalism" back from the middle ages or dark ages, we would all need to owe fealty to one individual whom basically owned all the land, everything produced on that land, as well as basically own all the people who live on that land. Each individual person or family owing fealty to the "Lord" of the land, would owe a large portion of any good or income produced, and would also owe a certain number of days per year in service of any military needs of the "Lord" of the area. \n\nEven taking into account taxes we pay our government, both federal and state, we do not come close to giving the amount one of the "Lord" people would owe the "Lord" each harvest or yearly income. We also do not have the draft any longer, which was the closest we came as a country in giving unwilling military service. \n\nTo accomplish a feudalistic society, we would need basically one ruler, whose eldest son or next closest male relative would inherit after the death of the current Lord. This is not how things will be anytime in the future I can invision.\n\nWe would also need to have just one ruler, meaning the world would have to unite and all the other rulers would need to give up their powers, which is something else I just don't see happening any time soon. While I understand the feudalism of yesteryear had Kings and a level of society in which certain lords were under fealty of ones higher and so forth, Kings just did not have the power they had in later years, after feudalism was a thing of the past. While "Land Owners" took over in many ways simular to the old feudalism, it was not the near complete power over life and death as it had been in real feudalism. \n\nSo, to answer your question, I think you can stop being so worried about feudalism ever coming back in any meaningfull way. I don't really care for the Free Trade system we currenty share either, I just do not think it is good for our economy. I think it takes jobs from Americans and is forcing out the middle class. The only individuals Free Trade assists in any meaningfull way are business owners and polititions. \n\nI think your question was very though provoking and refreshing here at Answers. I hope you ask more questions in the future.\n\nSorry about any miss spelled words, the new spell check is  not working for some reason. I suppose as it is "new" it needs a few kinks worked out. :-)
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There could be many reasons, each unique to the government and the locality.\n\nThe government might want to stimulate overall business growth by "seeding" particular industries.  Look at "silicon valleys" and all the other nearby businesses that start up when they do.\n\nThe government might be responding to demands by a particular industry.\n\nThe government might be interested in urban renewal of a particular area, and is encouraging this by giving a financial incentive to businesses to locate there.
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Yes, your teacher may be shortening it up a bit but think of it this way.  Land= More Resources= More Business= More Wealth= More Negotiation Strenght= More Power\n\nHOWEVER, this is changing.  Now that the information age is taking over, its not about land anymore its about information.  So yes your teacher is correct as it applies to history, but this is changing.
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Politics. people with power want more than money, they want land and when you have two greedy rich people, they will do what it takes to own that land even if it means WAR!!!
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The Feudal system is where you have Lords/Ladies who own large tracts of land.  The serfs (or peasants) who live on the land participate is share cropping, where they grow crops on the lord's land and pay him to do so with part of their crop.  The Lord inturn pays money to the King/Queen.  It was hard if not impossible for a serf to move up in the caste system and they couldn't move to another lord's land because they usually stayed indebt to their lord.
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he few roads that still existed were in a bad state, bridges were scarce, and brigands were common. For this reason during the Dark Ages, which lasted until about 1000 A.D., populations were tightly bound to the land surrounding the feudal lord's castle. People moved about only when there were festivals in other cities. These were the only occasions on which people could buy or look at different goods and have a chance to sell their own food or objects and fabrics made for sale. Fear controlled people’s lives and induced them to ask for protection from powerful warriors who had constructed well-defended castles, or from monasteries, which did not have soldiers but did have thick walls to hide behind. Life was hard, and , people thought little of clothing. Clothes were often made at home and were often rough and shapeless. Trousers, tunics and shawls were used to keep away the cold. The shawls were made of wool or fur and put over the shoulder. Most Europeans were dressed like today’s Benedictine monks, except for men’s trousers. Shoes were leather wrapped around the foot. Colors were plain; they were shades of gray, brown, dark blue and red. Conical hats were commonly worn.\n\nThis was a pyramidal society because the classes of people were in a shape of a pyramid.. with the kings and queens at the top of the pyramid (and were few in number) down to the peasants (who were many in number). In the middle were feudal lords, clerics, and others, such as vassals.\n\nTAILORING\nIn the Middle Ages, for the wealthy, most clothes were created by tailors. Some fabrics tailors used were : Burnet, perse, lincoln scarlet, kersey, russet, chalons, damask, and sandal. (Most of the population, however, made their clothing themselves).\n\nCLOTHING\nOften, kings and queens would wear crowns and brightly colored silks. Obviously, their clothing was very expensive and only they had enough money to afford such beautiful things.\n\nShoemakers and their spouses often wore borealis hats. The clothes they wore with that were woolen coats with fur-trimmed sleeves. Inside the coat was a woolen doublet.\n\nHoly orders, such as friars, wore cloaks with hoods and habits. On their clothes was a rope belt with wooden beads for counting prayers.\n\nFelt hats with stirrups and brown jackets were the daily wear of manor lords. Peasants' daily wear was simple: straw hats that they made themselves, linen shirts that they made themselves, leather flasks, hoses (pants), and pewter badges or good luck charms.
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A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. Generally, a "town" is thought of as larger than a village but smaller than a "city." The words "city" and "village" came into English from Latin via French. "Town" and "borough" (also "burrow," "burgh," "bury," etc.) are native English and Scottish words.A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. It is usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town or city. Villages have been the normal unit of community living in most areas of the world throughout its history, up until the Industrial revolution and the ongoing process of urbanization.-
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WHy not just one town and one province? Are you a God or someting like that?
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First find out if you can do so. Many municipalities are very strict in permitting this activity (neighbors don't like it)
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Usually (what I've seen) is that appraisals for property tax purposes break out the value between land & improvements.\n\nGenerally, the appraisals don't reflect anything close to market. Just my opinion.
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either somebody mis-counted or they invited their neighbor towns to march along with them
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That's a good question! I guess it's for the same reason why they get to live in castles and palaces they didn't earn.