Word: feudality
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...revived. The dream of order and unity once embodied in the Rome of the Caesars lived on through the Middle Ages, not only in the Roman Catholic Church but in that embattled but strangely viable anachronism, the Holy Roman Empire. Even after it disintegrated, and the last remnants of feudal internationalism gave way to popular nationalism, the European idea remained; and even if Europeans themselves at times forgot it, the rest of the world could not. For most of 2,000 years the culture, commerce and conquests of the peoples of Western Europe shaped the world's destinies. European...
Rajah Ide Anak Agung Ngurah Agung was a popular feudal lord among the jolly citizens of his Balinese principality. The people of Gianjar loved him for the zest with which he lived and loved. He enjoyed great feasts of good food and was a connoisseur of cockfights. He kept four official wives and some 40 concubines. Before dying, he ordered for himself a Karye Pitra-Yadnje Palebon first class, the most festive form of cremation ceremony practiced by the Hindus of Bali. Though President Sukarno of Indonesia (who is part Balinese himself) deplored the celebration as an extravagance...
Whenever a foreign visitor sits down in the Kabul office of His Royal Highness Sardar Mohammed Daoud of Afghanistan, he invariably gets a lecture. Its subject: the $700 million in foreign aid Daoud needs for his ambitious five-year economIc plan for mountainous, feudal Afghanistan. "We hope all our friends will participate and that we will get assistance from everywhere," he smiles, lighting an American cigarette with a Russian match, "But if it is not forthcoming in one quarter, we will get it in another...
Border Squabble. Though all this activity is altering the faqade of Afghanistan, it has had little effect on the nation's creaking social and political structure. Afghanistan is still ruled by a feudal family, despite the forms of Cabinet and Parliament. Hard-eyed, tough-minded Daoud is the cousin of Afghanistan's retiring King Mohammed Zahir Shah; Daoud's brother is Afghanistan's Foreign Minister. His power rests on the support of the army and his fellow aristocrats (when he took power, he was careful to assemble the tribal chiefs and get their endorsement...
...years the old (seventyish) Imam of Yemen has been as absolute a ruler as history records. In his feudal desert country, it took the Imam's personal signature to get a gasoline permit, authorize a $15 printing job, or order light bulbs for the palace. He clung to every trifle of power...