Dbq Samurai Chivalry

The Knights of Europe and the Samurai of Japan shared quite a few similarities; however, they do also share many differences. One such similarity would be that both the Knights and the Samurais were brave, strong, and loyal to their cause, especially due to both of their trainings starting at a very young age. An example of a difference would be the samurais having a much lighter armor than knights. This allowed for a more agile army. They also ascended to their titles at separate ages, with samurais being at a mere 14 years of age, and knights being 21.

Document A shows the feudal social structures in both Japan and Europe. When defining samurai and knights it read, “Warriors who owned loyalty and military service to daimyos or lord for land,” both samurai and knights were awarded for their pledged loyalty with land for them and their families. Document E states that “both samurai and knights were both expected to abide by a code of honor.” Although the honor code that Japanese warriors followed was different than the one of the European knights, they had the same general idea. A warrior had to be honest, loyal, and just and if they ever ignored or dishonored their duty as a warrior then it would bring shame, not only on them but their whole

Samurai and Knights are warriors fighting and serving for their lord. Samurai and knights are both trained, physically and mentally to fight for their lords, however while in a battle, strategies of both make it hard to distinguish who would win. While both warriors are very similar in many ways, Samurais differences such as their, training, weapons, and armor give them big advantages.

The first reason why the differences are greater than the similarities is because of the social order in feudal Japan and Europe. ”Historians and other scholars use social pyramids to show how societies were structured” (Document A). The samurai owned loyalty and military service to daimyo 's for land or regular payment while on the other hand knights owned loyalty and military service to the lords. Another difference about samurais and knights was the population. Samurai with families took about 10% of Japan 's population and in Europe, there was estimated 12,000 knights in England and Normany France in the 12th century. One more difference is that there are four people above the knight in the social order but only three for samurai.

In all I think that the differences between the knights and samurai's where greater than the similarities between the two. Whether its social classes, fighting style, armor, or even where they originated

The similarities between samurais and knights were greater than the differences due to the similarity in the hierarchy and the armor they used to protect themselves. The Samurai were “warriors who owed loyalty and military service to daimyos for land or regular payment.” They made up about 10% of Japan’s population. Similarly, knights were “warriors who owed loyalty and military service to the lord for land.” (Document A) There were about 12,000 knights in England and Normandy, France in the 12th century. Even though Japan and Europe had no communication or access to each other, both areas placed the warrior classes in the middle of the hierarchy and owed loyalty/military services. This shows that the social order of both Feudal Japan and Feudal

Hey, Have you ever learned about the Samurai and Knights?? Well they had a few big similarities but lots of differences. Also in that era Samurai and Knights they had to be very loyal to their lord. I have a question for you. Were the similarities greater than the differences? No I don't think the similarities are greater than the differences between the Samurai and Knights. So no I think there are more differences than similarities. I’m going to be talking about the Samurai [Japanese Warrior] and Knights [European Warrior] is there Social position, Training and Armor, and Life and death.

The first reason why the knights and the samurai are more different than alike is because of their code of honor. Document E states that there are two different codes of honor. The code of honor of the samurai was called Bushido. In Bushido, samurai are loyal to their family and to friends. They devote themselves to helping others. In chivalry, knights were to be helpful to ladies. They always had to be loyal to the king. People may think that just because they both have codes of honor and they are loyal to others means they are the

According to to series “Warrior Challenge”, “A prospective Knight’s Training ( began at age four or five) with learning to ride a pony. By the age or seven or eight, he would be sent to server as a page to his father’s overlord or to a powerful relative.” ( Doc. C) He would spend time learning about horsemanship, archery, and swordsmanship. Around the age of 21 is when they are able to become an official knight and from there on they would live their live according to the Code of chivalry. According to a series “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire”, Samurai training would start during childhood as well. “ School was a unique combinations of physical training.. poetry and spiritual discipline. The young warriors studied kendo, the moral code of the samurai, and Zen Buddhism. At about the age of 14 the trainees officially became samurai in a ceremony called Genpuku. Samurai were expected to live according to Bushido.” ( Doc. C) Samurai and knights both began training in their childhoods, they trained for many years to become apart of the warrior class, and they received some religious and moral

In, document D - The Way of the Samurai, 1600’s: it talks about the code of Bushido and Chivalry. It says (paragraph 1) “ Outwardly he stands in physical readiness for any call to service in inwardly he strives to fulfill the Way….” this shows just how honorable a samurai could be. In Europe it was just the same (paragraph 2) it states “give mercy in those who ask for it” These similarities are significant because loyalty between the two, shows how much they trust each other. Without this trust and loyalty , these countries would be

Both the samurai and knights belonged and worked for their lord for their whole lives and were completely devoted to them. Furthermore, the samurai and knights were similar because they both had a lord but they also had similar training. Both samurai and knights started training young, and started training with things like poetry and religious training (Document C). They learned to have loyalty and devotion to their lord and respect their religion.

Loyalty was central to both the Bushido code (samurai) and the Code of Chivalry (knights). The samurai was even loyal to their lord above their family. Knights valued loyalty, as well as courage, honor, and mercy. Samurai, due to their Buddhist beliefs, felt that death was part of life and therefore didn`t fear death as a consequence of being a warrior. However, knights, through their many Catholic beliefs, were afraid of how they might be judged by their god, should they die on the field of

The purpose of samurai and knight is to protect their people. The knights and samurais each have different teachings. Loyalty towards the feudal lord in Japan was hereditary. Service of a feudal lord passed from father to son, so that the relations of lord and a samurai existed between many families for man generations. This arrangement was also a voluntary one, in that there was no legal contract between the two parties The European feudal contract, which was a legal document spelling out the obligations of lord and vassals respectively, never existed in Japan. However, it really began to develop around the 10th century in Europe. In a one-on-one battle, a samurai would win because of their training, armor, and beliefs about death. The first way that samurais were superior in battles trough

The first paragraph of document C states that samurai had certain steps of this training process. This process includes practicing sword fighting at around eight years old. Then at fourteen years, they moved up a rank of official samurai, where they were viewed as men. Samurai were taught about their religion and about the Samurai Code known as Bushido. They had to live by this code. The second paragraph of document c talks about the knights training. At an early age, they were taught to sword fight. At the age of fourteen, they moved up a rank to become squires, where they were considered to be fighting men. Knights were taught about their religion and had to live by chivalry, the knight’s moral code. As you can see, their training was not all that different. The significance of this point is to help prove the true similarity between knights and

In this first paragraph, I will be comparing the code of Bushido and the Code of Chivalry. The code of Bushido said that Samurai had to be honest, fair, and fearless in the face of death. A samurai had to follow this code, and if they didn't there would be consequences. If samurai did not follow this rule they would have to do Seppuku or ritual suicide. The code of Chivalry said that Knights had to be loyal