Uzbekistan, a country of apricot orchards, cotton fields and ancient stone cities in the foothills of the Pamir Mountains, has no tradition of democracy, having been ruled by vassal khans of the czars until the Soviet period, and by Mr. Karimov after that.
So if not by another Hundred Years' War── Nor if by vassal and fief?
At Christmas 1085, William ordered the compilation of a survey of the landholdings held by himself and by his vassals throughout the kingdom, organised by counties.
He deprived his people of proper education and health care, limiting school programmes, closing hospitals and pushing qualified ethnic Russians out of jobs.Flattered by his vassals, and seduced by foreign firms, Russian and Western alike, he proclaimed himself "Turkmenbashi the father of all Turkmen and eternal president to boot.
Outlawed (1180), beaten in the field, and deserted by his vassals, Henry had to surrender and go into exile in 1182.
In the second half of the 15th century the shugo daimyo were supplanted by the Sengoku daimyo (i.e., daimyo of the Sengoku, or "Warring States" period); these military lords held small but consolidated domains in which all the land belonged to themselves or was held in fief by their vassals.
Thus, the Ottoman armies came to be composed primarily of fighting contingents supplied by the vassals of the sultan, particularly the Crimean Tatar khans, together with whatever rabble could be dragged from the streets of the cities whenever required by campaigns.
The scattered feudal states gradually acquired something like territorial solidity as the neighbouring populations established closer ties with them, either by marriage or by accepting vassal status; the gaps between the fortified cities were thus filled by political control and cultural assimilation.
Left only with forces provided by his Christian vassals, Bayezid was decisively overwhelmed by Timur at the Battle of Ankara in 1402.
