Lords and Manors in T2K

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Originally Posted by Mohoender

It works fine during an entire part human history. Japan and Western Europe of course. But the most interesting country to adopt this system was the Byzentium Empire. There, each soldier was to gain a certain estate after his time. The main drawback to this system is that you quickly run out of free land.

That's the real reason that the Catholic Church made celibacy among its priests mandatory -- early in the Church's history, Church lands and other property were being inherited by Church clerics' kids and eating up the property of the Church. It was threatening the Pope's power and the financial underpinning of the Catholic Church.