It led to not enough taxes being collected and the government not being able to supply the powerful exempted families with military protection. The leaders formed their own armies consisting of soon to be samurais. These often consolidated to huge estates under powerful military lord (Daimyo). Former owners managed former land for protection.…
| They were placed strategically around Edo as they were the most loyal and held most rapport in the shoguns council…
Cite: The answer is located on page 302 under the heading “Korea: Between China and Japan” the passage states “the koguryo in the north, soon resisted Chinese rule. As Chinese control weakened, the koguryo established an independent state in the northern half of the peninsula that was soon at war with two southern rivals, Silla and Paekche”…
| They believed that the Japanese were more loyal to their ruler than Westerners were to their own rulers.…
* While religion played a significant part in Japanese and Samurai history, it didn't hold the importance religion did in Europe at the time (crusades). In fact, there were many Buddhist monastaries filled with warrior monks who were technically not samurai, but certainly as well trained and equipped as that class.…
The remedy that was proposed for this was allowing the barons to seize all the…
Yoritomo was important because he lead the Minamoto clan from near - ruin to control of Japan. He lead the Minamoto against Taira clan in a war that gave him the title of Shogun, a title and position later lords would fight for over centuries. At the end of the Genpei war and beginning of the Kamakura Shogunate marked the rise of military (samurai) power and the suppress, on the power of the emperor, who was compelled to reprised without effective political or military power, untill the Meiji restoration over 650 years later.…
1. What event was most directly responsible for the rise of the gun powder empires in Turkey, Iran, and India and similar states in Tsarist Russia and Ming China?…
Life changed dramatically between paleolithic and neolithic times. Neolithic life changed through agriculture because through agriculture people could farm instead of gathering and hunting while Paleolithic life changed through technology and religion. Paleolithic and Neolithic have so many differences and similarities.…
With America noticing the decline the started an airlift to transport food and necessities to the eastern half. The USSR the head of Warsaw put up what was called the iron curtain (seen in image 1) to block any outside help. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. To the east of the…
3. The majority of the court believed that compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes was okay in what situation?…
1. What reason does Columbus give for keeping his journal? What does this reason tell us about his mission on this journey?…
Q1: What does Lopez mean when he states that "race is plastic". How does this correlate with his idea of racial fabrication?…
1. “They are the only ones who understand me. I am the only one who understands them. Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbow like mine.” (74)…
* Women were taught to slay themselves rather than dishonor the family line by getting raped…