Feudalism is a postmedieval construct developed to describe a system of devolved political, military, social, and economic power and control from a king or lord to a vassal in the Middle Ages.
Microsoft, which in America is now number two in search after Google, has a willing (and desperate) vassal in Nokia, a phonemaker, and a new mobile operating system.
He had learned that his father had been murdered by a close vassal in 1549 (one of the events leading to his release by the Oda) and had observed helplessly from afar the subsequent disintegration of his family fortunes.
Founded in 1443 and centred at Bakhchysaray, the Crimean khanate staged occasional raids on emergent Muscovy but was no longer the threat to Russian independence that its parent state, the Golden Horde, had been even after becoming a Turkish vassal in 1475.
The Xiongnu leader Huhanye Chanyu (r. 58 31 BC) finally submitted to Han as a tributary vassal in 51 BC.
Wang Mang renewed hostilities against the Xiongnu, who were estranged from Han until their leader Bi, a rival claimant to the throne against his cousin Punu, submitted to Han as a tributary vassal in AD 50.
John hoped that the Pope would give him valuable legal and moral support and accordingly played for time; the King had declared himself to be a papal vassal in 1213 and correctly believed he could count on the Pope for help.
In the days that followed, the Saudis and their allies imposed conditions that appeared designed to reduce Qatar to a vassal state; in order for the blockade to be lifted, the country would, among other things, have to close Al Jazeera and sever relations with Iran.
The Persian Sassanids turned Caucasian Albania into a vassal state in AD 252, while King Urnayr officially adopted Christianity as the state religion in the 4th century.
