>>17860789Feudalism died because Kings can not justify wars that they lose. Northern european loyalty to Kings are personal rather than being genetic or class obligations, we can't create empires. Geographically europe is fucked, demographically it is fucked, it's couldn't recreate the Roman Empire, although the church tried.
The harder the church and the royals pushed the more europeans pulled back which is where feudalism comes in. With feudalism at the beginning you could demand troops from your people but eventually it just became a system that you could use to invisibly wage war through tax collection.
Kings learned very early on how fast their tax revenue dries up when they're losing so they invented central banks to wage global economic warfare and pass off the "loss" as inflation to its people. An invisible tax, the perfect system for warfare