What Were The Consequences Of Political And Nationalistic Revolutions?

Feudal Japan had eight social classes. Peasants, artisans, and merchants made up 90 percent of Japan’s pouplationship. Artisans made equipments, tools and weapons. Merchants sold goods and produce. Peasants were farmers and fishers who gave most of their produce to daimyo and the shogun in exchange for the right to live on the land.

Shogun is a title that is bestowed upon a person by the emperor, being a shogun meant that you were military dictator. Shoguns ran the country with their military force and where the true power of the country was held, as the emperor was a figurehead being kept occupied in Kyoto with religious ceremonies. We will be talking about two important shoguns that shifted the momentum of Japan, Minamoto no Yoritomo and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Feudal Japan was a time in Japanese history that lasted from 1185 to 1603 A.D. This influential time included the rise of the bakufu, or tent government, and rule by shōgun. It also included many wars, battles, and introductions of new weapons, ideas, or religions from foreign places. The mentioned introductions included firearms, Buddhism, and Christianity.

Feudalism was introduced in Japan in 1185CE when the emperor started to lose power in a series of wars. The emperor gave the most powerful daimyo the title of Shogun so they would not take him over as emperor. This began a new form of control in Japan, where the leaders of different armies controlled smaller pieces of land, rather than one emperor controlling everything. The daimyo divided up the land into smaller areas and relied on peasants to farm the land and be soldiers.

The samurai class arose in Japan during the end of the Heian Era, which lasted from 794-1185 CE. The emperor of the time and his court had become detached from the needs of the country, and as a result were often referred to as “The Court in the Clouds.” A powerful clan known as the Fujiwara family took advantage of the emperor’s cluelessness, and gained power through tricks and manipulation. After the Fujiwara family’s rise to power, all the nobles and clans began to fight each other and compete over power. This lawlessness lead to the rise of the samurai, who the warlords hired to increase their armies, which would them increase their power. The samurai lived very disiplined and focused lives, where they “had to follow a strict code

Feudalism was a social system in ancient Japan and Europe. While this system is not current, it still influences society today. Samurais and knights followed different codes and raised many different traits above others. The class systems were different. Mobility between classes in feudalism was nearly impossible. Although Japan and Europe both had a feudalistic government, they remained dissimilar.

Throughout history, the world has seen revolts. Revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the government. But only a few are called revolutions, because they succeeded in overthrowing their government. In this paper, I will examine the 5 revolutions that we have studied thus far: American, French, Haitian, Mexican, and Russian revolutions, and whether they fundamentally changed their respective societies. The revolutionaries promised change that would benefit the people, but when one looks closely, it can be clearly seen that there was little change in the hierarchy, but it was a different group of people in charge. Even when it seemed the revolutionaries had followed through, it proved to be a broken promise, as things went back to the

Shogun – The shogun was the emperor’s leading general. Between 1185 and 1867, shoguns formed their own governments and controlled Japan. As well as commanding the military, shoguns ran the everyday affairs of the country and were responsible for collecting taxes.

Because of the limited amount of Japanese land, the richer people of Japan began to pay for land reclamation projects. They began to gain more land, which also gave them more power. The land needed to be protected, so they hired samurais to guard the land and peasants to farm it. This resulted in the feudalism system.

Japan’s feudal system was unlike many other feudal systems. It was not based on a person’s wealth but instead was based on how much they could contribute to the society. The system went from the emperor, shoguns, to daimyo, to samurai, to peasants and finally to merchants and craftsmen. Although the merchants were at the bottom of the feudal system and were not well respected by the other classes, they were still able to live great lives. This was because they were able to make a lot of easy money and were needed by the society and so nothing could be done about them. On the other hand they were not as respected and treated well by the other classes and did not have a lot of power.

Most European nations were ruthlessly competitive with each other in the mid to late 1800s. Each one wanted to be unconquerable; by obtaining the most land and resources.

Traditionally, there are various areas in Japan that reflect feudalism. Note that feudalism refers to the system of government that existed in medieval Japan where there were noble families, military servants, and peasants (Duus, 4). Members of noble families held land and peasants worked for them in exchange of military protection. All governing and administrative powers concentrated on nobles. They were treated as lords and exercised absolute authority on their subjects. Peasants used to live in the land belonging to these lords, provide them with labor and other services including a share of the farm’s produce (Karl, 183). People related on the basis of lordship and vassalage depending on the social class one belonged. Feudalism prevailed

The time of feudalism in Japan took place from the 12th via 19th centuries. In Theory, the emperor was the one who headed the Japanese Society. But Fact of the matter was that he was powerless, though regarded, figurehead. Real power laid in the hands of the shogun/ supreme military commander. In 1192 Yoritomo Minamoto was appointed as the shogun. He was the one who set up the kamakura shogunate, it was the first of three military dynasties that ruled almost 700 hundred years in Japan. Shogun quiet often controlled only small part of Japan. He gave lands to vassal lords who in return agreed to support him through military/armies when in need. They began to be known as Great warrior lords called daimyo. They, later on granted land to the smaller

Looking back at the world in the past few hundred years, it would have been difficult to imagine that one day, majority of Western Europe would come to dominate the world in global economy (Landes, European Exceptionalism: A Different Path, 1998). Frank (2001) described the process of which the western society

Feudalism the legal and social system that evolved in Western Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries, in which vassals were protected and maintained by their lords, usually through the granting of fiefs, and were required to serve under them in war. During 476 to the 1100’s feudalism appeared from Europe starting with France all the way to Japan, so what were the characteristics of feudalism where it began compared to the last place it was, Japan.