Manoralism

Feudalism is political. Manoralism is economical. Set up, it can be self sufficient. It didn’t need to go anywhere else or leave your manor for anything. You grow all the food you eat it, you have a mill, you have a blacksmith, you have everything you actually needed to physically survive, which good but also bad. The good part is, you don’t need anybody else. The bad part is, there’s no contact going on. Especially because the serfs were tied to the land, they’re not allowed to leave the land without permission from their lord. So it isn’t like, “Hey I’m going to take a vacation for the weekend, and head out to the beach. Or go out to the city and see what I can buy with this extra stuff.” So the interaction’s at a minimum across Europe. So that’s bad for business.