Compare And Contrast Feudal Japan And Feudal Europe

Tang and Song China had ideas that were advanced and improved the lifestyles of many. In a chart titled “Cultural Diffusion from China 500-1,000 AD” (Document 1), it states the cultural diffusion of China into Japan. Centralized governments, agricultural technologies, and system of weights and measurements from China were found in Japan. This shows that the ideas from Tang and Song China were so great and helpful, it influenced Japan. In a diagram titled “Geographic and Economic Information” (Document 2), it shows the Silk Road trade route and what items were traded West to East and East to West. Most

While differing ecomically and politically in their responses to western penetration, Japan and China had similarities in the way of geography. China only allowed Europeans to trade with it in a limited number of ports and cities, which limited the amount of goods Europeans were allowed to transfer overseas. Japan isolated itself as a whole from trade for an entire decade, and when it did open it was cautious towards westerners. Additionally, both were bordered by the ocean at least to a certain extent – Japan was surrounded entirely, being an island, by water, and a large percentage of China’s borders was water. It is because of this that the third similarity arose – both did trade by ocean. China with Britain, simply because it was the easiest, cheapest, and most efficient form of travel between the two, and Japan because there was obviously no choice considering Japan is an island. These geographical similarities arose purely from the coincidence that both were bordered by the ocean, which created the necessity for boats and by the time the opportunity for trade

Unlike the Europeans they did not have much political control but were very wealthy.After a while the nobles took over and there were no more emperors.The Shogun which had the most political control and became the ruler of Japan. The Shoguns also had control over the army of Japan.The Shoguns were considered the vassals to the Emperors. The different rulers for both European and Japanese Feudalism were similar and had many rules and regulations that they had to follow.

Society cannot exist without a unified social doctrine, as is true with both the Han and Roman empires. While there may be vast differences between them, at their roots is the same thing, a structure built on family. In this family

During the early nineteenth century, both China and Japan enforced policies restricting foreign trade in order to avoid industrialization and western ideas, but after both societies experienced foreign invasions and unequal treaties being established by foreigners, Japan began to industrialize and became imperialists trying to create an empire, while China differed in that the people wanted reform and government restrained the reformation of their society, therefore causing multiple rebellions and overall the collapse of their empire.

If an emperor could not trust anyone with sufficient power to deal with a distant problem, most likely the problem was not dealt with at all. “This sense of neglect by central government prompted a region to rebel and proclaim it’s own emperor” (Goldsworthy). A solution to this problem was to have two emperors. This system had very little success and caused even more separation of military and civil order. Overall, the fear of usurpers overtaking power, lead emperors to lose focus on the necessary credentials of a successful society. The government had limited ambitions and lacked concern for major issues such as health, education, and agriculture.

The empires all shared some similarities and obviously many differences, but all tried to find ordered and successful nations in troubled times through different methods, sometimes religious, sometimes philosophical, sometimes

Japan's practice of imperialism helped them capture lands such as a small portion of China and Manchuria. (Doc. 9). Since Japan had few natural resources, they industrialized those parts of their neighbors. Japan relied wholly on the imports from China and Manchuria. (Doc. 8).

Japan was affected because America's trade was vital to Japan's survival. Trade with America became limited and Japans economic prosperity was at risk. Japan needed more imports. The army decided on a militaristic option and seized Manchuria, as it had rich supplies of raw materials such as coal, iron ore, timber and rice. They believed that by expanding, Japan could become more powerful.

The government of Europe and Japan started to decentralize and weaken, with the use of feudalism. To protect their empires, Europe use knights and Japan used samurai as their warriors. The knights and samurai were more different than they were similar. Knights and samurai excelled in different areas. The samurai and knights had different roles in the feudal system. Lastly, the samurai and knights believed different things.

with certain aspects of the Emperors life. Aspects that the history books to normally deal

Their warrior class was very different also. The Japanese had samurais while the Europeans had

Before the war with America, the Japanese economy was going in the opposite of the American. This meaning that during this time the Japanese economy was becoming so powerful that it needed to expand onto the mainland of Asia just to meet

they were attached to the centre of power, because they influenced the king more than

Hand in hand, the zaibatsu and government guided the nation, borrowing technology from the West. Japan gradually took control of much of Asia's market for manufactured goods, beginning with textiles. The economy structure became very mercantilist, importing raw materials and exporting finished products — a reflection of Japan's relative poverty in raw materials.[2]