In Medieval Europe, politics were organized into a religious hierarchy knows as feudalism. This system dominated Europe for many years. Many factors contributed to breakdown of the feudal system. When this order finally ended it was replaced by an era known as the Renaissance, which would lead to modern Europe. Feudalism was based on two main concepts. One was the divine right to rule, where everyone believed that the leader ruled “in the power of …showed first 75 words of 573 total…

…showed last 75 words of 573 total…feudalism, absolutism, and the divine right to rule, which both relied upon the concept of human evil and their inability to govern. Feudalism was a system that required people to be submissive, not question authority, and a stay in one place. These all defy human nature, three for its fall was inevitable. The Renaissance brought freethinking and an entirely new approach to life in Europe. This new approach would lead Europe into the modern world.