From the 13th century , the two main Balkan powers Byzantium and Bulgaria fell Motion_directional victims to a process of decentralization , as local feudal lords grew Expansion stronger and more independent from the emperors in Constantinople and Tarnovo .

Several of the barons and counts holding Hold territory with feudal obligations Imposing_obligation to the Elector also held Hold territory in nearby Dutch provinces ; Westphalia , Liege and the Southern , or Spanish Netherlands .

The Kalinga War Hostile_encounter ( ended Process_end ) was fought Hostile_encounter in what is now India between the Maurya Empire under Ashoka and King of Raja Anantha of the state of Kalinga , an independent feudal kingdom located on the east coast , in the present-day state Statement of Odisha and north of Andhra Pradesh .

The rebellion was in equal part a protest by feudal lords against the intrusion of central government into their domains ; a conservative Irish reaction Response to English policies that were altering Change traditional Gaelic society ; and a religious conflict Hostile_encounter , in which the rebels claimed Statement that they were upholding Catholicism against a Protestant queen who had been pronounced Statement a heretic in 1570 by the papal bull `` Regnans in Excelsis '' .

the revolution Change_of_leadership resulted in the suppression of the feudal system , emancipation of the individual , a greater division of landed Self_motion property , abolition of the privileges of noble birth , and nominal establishment of equality among men .

In the east of `` Circassia '' were two feudal polities , Greater Kabardá and Lesser Kabardá .

Coming to power three decades after the death of the Muslim prophet Muhammad and immediately after the Rashidun Caliphate , the Umayyads were a feudal Arab empire ruling Control over a population which was overwhelmingly non-Arab as well as primarily non-Muslim .

The feudal Ali ' i often fought wars to gain Getting land and mana ; however the introduction of European weapons gave Giving some Ali ' i an advantage over others , and they began Process_start aggressively taking over Conquering their neighbors .

Apart from dispensing with poll tax on non-Muslims ( jizya ) , the revolutionaries also abolished all feudal obligations in 1806 , only 15 years after the French revolution Change_of_leadership , peasant and serf emancipation thus representing a major social break with the past .