Samurai And Knights Dbq Research Paper

Have you ever thought that the Samurai warriors and the Medieval Knights had something in common? The Samurai and Knights fought in war, and they had to honor their code of conduct. So do samurai warriors and Medieval Knights have anything in common? The similarities between Samurai and Knights were greater than the differences. This can be seen from three important areas; social position, training and armour, and honor and death.

The first similarity that I found between the samurai and knight was the social positions. In the social pyramid chart from document A both Samurai and Knight positions in society were almost alike. The European Knights and the Japanese Samurai were in the middle of the pyramid with the higher class on top and the

In the article which is from “Japan; Memories of a Secret Empire” in document C it states “The rigorous training (of samurai)... began in childhood.” In the second passage which was adapted from “Warrior Challenge” it states “A prospective knights training began at age four or five.” As you can tell they both started training at a very young age. Samurai and Knights had very different armour, and looked very different, but they both had the same concept. In the article “Knight from Art Resource” found in document D it states “In samurai armour small iron scales were tied together, lacquered, and then bound into armour plates.” In the second paragraph from the article it says “Knights wore armour made of chain mail.” The similarities are their armour was very heavy, and they all shared the same purpose which is to protect the warrior or the

I found this to be the biggest similarity out of all of the similarities. In the article “The Way of the Samurai” found in document E it talks about the code of Bushido which is the code that the Samurai must follow, and the code of Chivalry which is the code the Knights must follow. In the article it says “The business of a samurai consist… in discharging loyal service to his master if he has one* in the deepening his fidelity loyalty in association with friends, and in devoting himself to duty above all.” This statement was talking about the code of Bushido. In the second paragraph of the article it states “With great ceremony each knight took the vows of true knighthood, solemnly promising to do no wicked deed, to be loyal to the king, to give mercy to those asking it, always to be courteous, and helpful to ladies, and to fight in no wrongful quarrel for worldly gain, upon pain of death or forfeiture of knighthood and king Arthur's favour.” This is the code of chivalry which is what the knights were supposed to fight. In document F it had a poem written by a Japanese samurai writer. As soon as you finish reading the poem you can tell that the samurai worry about the present and not the future. The second part of document F is a song about a Knight's death called “The Song of Roland” The song and poem were both very different such as the Samurais poem was more if he dies he dies, but