Do you like samurais and knights? This issue focuses on samurais and knights. It will show the differences and similarities between them and the kind of training they had to do, the honor they had to follow, and their social structures/social pyramid. Does it matter that we have to learn about samurais and knights? In the text, it will be talking about training, honor and social structures. For some background information the samurai and knights both had to fight for there town/city, be loyal to the higher classes and make sure to do the things in there class and not do something that may cause consequences. Why are the samurais and knights so important to learn about and compare? It is important to learn to see how defence went from then with …show more content…
refining his [horse] skills and receiving some religious instruction.... (B)y the age of 14, pages were eligible [to become] a squire." This would be used for when the they where to grow up and defend the house or go off to fight for their city. In document D it talks about how the samurai and knights had different armors they would have to wear to protect themselves for war/combat, for the samurais armor it states "In samurai armor (left), small iron scales were tied together, lacquered, and then bound into armor plates with silk or leather cords." and for the knights it states "As more powerful weapons such as crossbows and longbows became common, chain …show more content…
In document A it talks about both Feudal Japan and Feudal Europe and their social pyramids, and in the social pyramid for japan it went Emperor first which is there just for display, the shogun second which is more like the emperor, daimyos are third and mostly just fought one another, samurais are fourth being the fighting unit, peasant fifth since they made the food, then artisans/ trades people, and last is merchants. For the knights there social pyramid went the pope first since hes head of the church, king second, lords third which owed military service to the king, lesser lords fourth, knights fifth for the fighting service, artisans/merchants sixth, and peasants on the bottom because they were just where famers and worked for the people higher in class. This is showing how the social pyramid was and has changed to how it works