Feudalism was the true beginning of monarchies and other modern governments. In it, the political system was always a monarchy. The big differences between feudalism and a democracy would be that in feudalism people had no rights, but in many systems today, they do. Also, feudalism combines all three systems, while countries like the United States keep them very isolated. The social system was fixed, meaning you were born and you died in the same social class. This is drastically different from modern times, because now, in developed countries, you can often work yourself to the top of the social ladder, but in the middle ages, a peasent could work themselves to the point of collapsing