A Middling Fair 554

 Fun Fact #554

A Middling Fair

By the Middle ages, Fairs still served a vital role in fulfilling the societal, economic, and religious needs of the various peoples across Europe. However they had actually had one major problem, Society at the time was built around Serfdom and when people from one place cme to the fair of another there was the risk that new ideas could spark Riots and the overthrow of local Lords (land owners who owned the farms people were tied to). Thus they were only allowed by Royal decree and couldn't be organized by wandering merchants or locals without the risk of great bodily harm.

Eventually these would naturally evolve over time, until The time of The Year of Revolutions where fairs provided the primary vectors of revolutionary ideas and Democracies. This then sparked the French Revolution, and countless others which saw the overthrow of most of the European monarchies in the early 1800s and even those that survived would never be the same after World War 1 provided the final nail in the coffin to change the system.