> In some places the sovereign literally owned all the land and people on it.
Russia was like this till 1861! And arguably practically for much longer so, perhaps still.
Russia was like this till 1861! And arguably practically for much longer so, perhaps still.
Er, no. 19th century USA was a pretty advanced (technologically and culturally) civilization and yet with an extremely backward system of feudalism even by bronze age standards.
Seems political progress is not so important after all.