Dbq Essay On Samurai And Knights

From the stone age to modern times there have always been warriors fighting for what they think is right. Three things that all these soldiers have in common is they will always fight for the protection of their people and never be influenced by money, they will follow orders no matter how crazy or difficult they may be, and they will never show that they are afraid in the heat of battle. Two types of warriors that made a huge impact on the world are Europe's Knights and Japan’s Samurai. The samurai and Knights although on opposite parts of the globe are very similar in many ways. A couple ways they the two types of soldiers are similar is in the way they train, the armor they wore, and their codes of honor that they followed. As previously stated above Knights and Samurai were very similar in the way they trained. This is true because in the PBS series “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire,” it states, “ The young warriors studied Kendo (the art of fencing with bamboo sticks), the moral code of the samurai, and Zen Buddhism,” (doc C), …show more content…
This means that the samurai did not have to sign a contract and their loyalty is just a voluntary one and the knights had to sign a contract that prevented them from leaving their lords. This is important because the knights were bound to their lords and the samurai could leave their masters at any time, this shows that the trust between the samurai and their masters is much higher than the bond between knights and their master because they don't need a contract to prove their