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…showed last 75 words of 1937 total…that they should not pay their homage and other services to their lords, the feudal system fell apart. In Japan in 1871, the shogunate was abolished, and with it went the feudal society. Both types of feudalism in Japan and Europe were great governments, because they lasted for hundreds of years. Many governments before feudalism had failed to last for any period of time, yet this government held relative peace for a long period of time.