When the “late feudal phenomenon” feeds into capitalism, it’s more than fair to identify it with it. Especially as the colonialism that followed that “late feudal phenomenon” looks nothing like the colonialism seen in feudal era.
People need to stop passively identifying capitalism with colonialism. The age of exploration was a late-feudal phenomenon. With the closest precursor actually being the crusades.
The Latins actually exported western feudalism to Byzantium during the Latin Empire.
@shaykishihkew It really shows the impact when our only knowledge of it came from Norse texts and later discovery of a site. Before then, no one knew or had any idea because its impact was nonexistent