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I'll credit the points that you made with a caveat.

If feudalism faded in England because of the long bow why did it fade in France and Germany.

Feudalism could exist only in an agrarian society. Europe moving from agrarian to metropolitian and the rise of the trade guilds , along with significant international trade began the steady decline of the feif system.

Also, I am strongly in favor of the melting pot. America has always had an advantage in being a race of mutts. Similar to the canine race mixed breeds tend to be more robust, healthier and less quirky.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"If feudalism faded in England because of the long bow why did it fade in France and Germany."

It took the French Revolution to end the feudal class system in France. In England, the transition was very gentle in comparison and it still exists to this day symbolically.

I don't know Germany as well as the other two nations. But this much I'd read about: the Hohenhaufen Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire [preceding Germany] was crushed by the Pope after a bitter and long feud. It kind of makes sense that Martin Luther caused religious competition in Germany. Being one of the leaders of of religious defiance gave Germans more self-confidence in their own ability to think, to not assume that authority figures know everything, or are all-powerful. However, Germany's concept of freedom appears stunted to this day. Germans are confused. Also, considering how the Hohenhaufen were hunted down, as well as being part of the Martin Luther resistance against the Catholic Church, it seems easy to understand why Germans are more vulnerable than others to slanderous conspiracy theories [such as the Jews].

The heart of modern freedom is the gun, and the longbow was something like a 'voice in the wilderness', allowing England to lead the world's social change up until 1776. The printing press sped up the process, no doubt. But the gun, on it's own, went a long way to making every man's home his own, private castle.