User blog comment:Lolcano11/Camelot: History, Geography, Politics and Culture. Discuss./@comment-5022597-20120416200030/@comment-5022597-20120417031218

@Aithusa07 I don't know if I'm replying to you right so sorry. I'm still very new at this!

haha, you flatter me to say that I should be a political expert. I've never actually taken any politics course, but I've taken lots of history ones so that's where I'm coming from.

Basically, from what I know off the top of my head, the feudal system is sort of a hierachy of obligations. You have the king, who owns all the land. Beneath him you'd have all the nobles who have agreed to look after his land in exhange for loyalty, military and money. The nobles when then divide up their land further into a series of areas governed by the local lord, who would owe the same to the nobles. The local lords gave out their land and protection (through knights) to peasants in exchange for loyalty and a variety of taxes. haha, I don't know if that's the best explanation but that's what it is. Sorry if it was boring!

But thank you very much for the great explanation about the old religion. Yes, that makes a lot of sense. Though it's weird that they still don't have a new religion. In the legends they were all Christian. And in real life King Arthur was roman-british and likely Christian too. But whatever. I guess it's not fashionable to be religious on television.

Yes, the printing press was invented in 1450 by Johannes Gutenburg, although it is believed to have been developed earlier in China. I hope that they don't have the printing press because that's important for the fanfic I'm writing, heheh. :P

As for it being the middle ages... I am really not sure if we can truly classify the time period as medieval. The legends perhaps dated from the middle-ages, although I really dont' know much about them, but the original king Arthur is believed to have lived in late Roman times. So we can't really say for sure what time period it is. But I don't think it really matters because it is a whole other dimension! After all, it has magic and dragons! That didn't exist in the real middle ages either! But as far as I can see (granted, I have not seen that much), the technology and society seems more akin to the late 15th century. Just because it has knights doesn't mean it's medieval!