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> What do you mean?
Partly this >>/40279/ but also it became more of an auxiliary force, the Ottomans would rely on primarily the central army for their campaigns combined with whatever local forces they could muster in the area.
Yeah, that's what I was referring to, the Balkans kept their local system and in many cases the religion too.
China was not feudal. They did not have a system whereby a hierarchy was formed based on people owning baronies and counties that they would inherit in return for service to those above. They had rich people and aristocrats but those aristocrats operated like they do in today's society, they may inherit a private estate and the wealth that goes with it but they didn't inherit positions of administration per-say. Again, as with the rich today, being that they live in an area and are from rich powerful families they will probably end up with the administration of their local city or whatever but this is not guaranteed or inherited and they still go through the bureaucratic system to get it they just grease a few palms and pull a few strings while doing it, it's probably actually closer to Rome. I don't know that this was more advanced even, because by the nature of it it was extremely corrupt.