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During the Medieval times, which system was better Merchant Republic, Nomadism or Feudalism?

During the Medieval times, which system was better Merchant Republic, Nomadism or Feudalism?

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Merchant republic.
t. Merchant

t. CK2 player

aren't merchant republics more of a modern age thing?

There were empires during the medival times in other parts of the world

Merchant republics were shit because of urban problems and feudalism was shit because of king problems.

"Merchant Republic", but ideally none of the above. A guild republic like Florence (which was actually a republic of guild artisans, not merchants.) for the cities and a peasant's republic like the rural Swiss cantons, Friesland, and Dithmarschen for the countryside. Higher forms of government would be confederations of those republics.

Honestly, not much different from what I would advocate for now a days. In fact, medieval republics tend to have more citizen participation, less centralized power, and direct democracy than modern parliamentary "republics", despite universal suffrage.

(Also, the Cossacks could be considered a nomadic republic, but they came a bit later than the Middle Ages.)

Also, medieval communal/city republics. (Venice, Florence, and the Imperial Free Cities were once those.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_commune

So for the city guildsman's republic, it would ideally be a bicameral republic with both a communal popular assembly and an assembly of the guilds.

old norse democracy/Althing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth

This sort of thing makes my inner fa/tg/uy turgid, anybody know some dank RPG settings with this kind of stuff?