While emp in Heian courts‚ rival clans battled for cntrl of countryside – local warlords & Budd temp formed armed bands loyal to then rath than to central gov As armies struggled for pwr‚ japan evolved feudal syst – warrior aristocracy dom J society In theory‚ emp stood at head of J feudal society – actually pwrless tho revered figurehead Real pwr lay in hands of shogun (supreme milit command) – Minamoto Yoritomo appointed shogun Yoritomo set up Kamakura shogunate‚ 1st of 3 milit
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did the Feudal Hierarchy and its protection work? Have you ever had an older or younger sibling who would try to bargain with you for stuff they yearned for with the other things you wanted? This concept is very similar to the Feudal Hierarchy and its protection. In each manor there were ranks and jobs that certain people had to follow in order to obtain what was necessary for survival at that time period. The people needed protection‚ while the landowners required defenses. In the Feudal Hierarchy
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FEUDAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM The economic portion of feudalism was centered on the lord’s estates or manor‚ and is called manorialism. A lord’s manor would include peasant villages‚ a church‚ farm land‚ a mill‚ and the lord’s castle or manor house. All economic activity occurred on the manor. This meant that little to no trade occurred during this time period. Most of the peasants during the middle Ages were serfs. Serfs were generally farmers who were tied to the land. They were not slaves because
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How did the Plague impact Feudal Europe? The plague was one of the most horrific pandemics in human history. It was an infectious disease that was caused by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis. The plague has killed 75 to 200 million people. It was either infectious through breathing around someone who was infected‚ or by direct contact. The plague created a series of religious‚ social and economic disturbances‚ as well as affect the course of European history. The plague hit religious communities
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“The Tokugawa period‚ also called the Edo period‚ (1603–1867)‚ was the final period of traditional Japan and a time of internal peace‚ political stability‚ and economic growth under the shogunate founded by Tokugawa leyasu (Saldasis‚ 2011‚p.214-215). Feudal Japan was a hierarchy with the Emperors and Shoguns settled at the top and the rest of the classes below‚ such as the Daimyo‚ Samurai‚ Peasants‚ Artisans and Merchants. During the Edo Era‚ Shoguns held and gained the most power over other social
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War & Society in Europe Midterm There were a number of conditions that would lead to the emergence of “feudal warfare” in the early Middle Ages and there would be an equal number that would lead to its decline in the later middle ages as well yet to find the meaning of “feudal warfare” one has to look first at where this notion came from‚ and that was Feudalism. Feudalism was a contrasting system dealing with political and military relationships existing among members of the higher
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Feudal System What was the feudal system? The feudal system is a structure of ordering society that began in 800 CE where Charlemagne‚ king of the Franks‚ gave land to the Church and wealthy nobles in return for their loyalty in running the empire. These ideas had been around for centuries but this was the first time the system had been clearly recorded in history. It took hundreds more years before it spread to the rest of Europe. (See appendix 1) How was the system structured? The feudal system
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The two feudal systems of Japan and Europe rose after several invasions and war-torn years. Based around agriculture‚ protection‚ loyalty‚ and honor‚ this system benefitted a wide variety of people living in a period that lacked stability‚ peacefulness‚ and hope. Although the feudal systems were efficient at the time for both locations and had several similarities‚ including an agriculturally-based economy‚ highly respected and important warrior classes‚ and a “caste system” that was nearly impossible
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Japan and Western Europe are two countries on opposite sides of the earth‚ yet both had a time period known as the feudal period. Japan’s feudal age (12th century to the = 15th century) is comparable in many ways to Europe’s feudal age (9th century through the 15th century‚ also known as the Middle Ages). Three specific areas that share differences and similarities between these two ages of feudalism are in politics‚ culture‚ and social structure. An area in which the West and Japan are as different
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Peasants are the lowest class on the feudal system. This was because they were either born into slavery or were captured during the war they fought in. Peasants were much treated like slaves. Peasants worked the land or farmed for their lord. The peasants did more than just farm for their lord‚ they also did their required tasks given to them by their lord. Some of these tasks were cutting down wood and also repairing roads. The peasants had a little amount of rights. People say Peasants lived in
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