Similarities Between Medieval Europe And Feudal Japan

In the societies of medieval Europe and feudal japan, there were many differences and simerialites, also how they were organized and controlled was different. The middle ages (medieval Europe) is known to be the historical period of Europe between the 5th and 15ht century. The medieval period ended with advent of renaissance which is known to be the beginning of the modern era. Feudalism in japan was all basically a fight for more land, wealth and above all power. When the government started becoming weaker large land owners had much power, and fought amongst themselves for each others land, which introduced the samurai. This is how feudlisism started. Although japan and Europe did not have any direct contact with each other during the medieval …show more content…
At the top was the samurai class. The samurais dominated the Japanese society, and although this class only took up 10% of japans population the samurais had enormous power. If a samurai walked past a lower class person, the lower class person would have to bow to the samurai, but if they didn’t the samurai has to cut there head off. The next down were the farmers and peasants, they were a superior part of the artisans and merchants lives, this is because they produced all the foods. The farmers and peasants were considered an honored class, but they lived under terrible homes. During the end of the feudal era they were not allowed to eat their own rice they produced. The farmers and peasants did a lot of the Japanese community, but got nothing in …show more content…
However even though they produced wonderful good, they were considered one of the less important classes. This class also included samurais sword makers, and boats. The Artisans lived in there own section of the major cities, separated away from the others. The lowest class were the merchants. They were trades and shopkeepers and extremely oshtrizied by the rest of the classes. The merchants also lived in a separate section of the city. Their were some people that even fell below this class, they were mostly criminals. The Merchants were disrespected by the rest of the community. Overall the way japan organized there county in classes helped japan run as a whole but it also made people be less important than others, which in some times was not