government and nobility and created a feudal structure in which the military‚ the samurai‚ increased some political powers whereas the Emperors and the upper classes in Japan continued the major rulers. In 1192 C.E.‚ Minamoto was granted the title of Shogun by the emperor and the political structure he established with a succession of shogun at the top came to be identified as the shogunate. The new Shogun ruler served as a military commander-in-chief for a new feudal Japan. Although there were still
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Feudalism is a popular theme in the 9th through 12th century. It refers to a social system that was key feature in medieval Europe (Medieval Europe: Feudalism) and is also “unsuitable in describing an extraordinarily complex situation” (Medieval Europe: Feudalism). The concept of feudalism adapted the longer it stayed around is why most historians do not approve of the standard concept of just a social system. The origin of feudalism stems from the “basic idea common to any society with a warrior
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Japanese and the European feudal system were very similar even though they lived many miles away‚ and different time periods. For example‚ Samurais and knights were about the same social level and power. Samurais are the “4th out of 6 the highest in the feudal scale” (DOC A )‚ and knights are the “ 5th highest out of 7 classes the highest in the feudal scale” (DOC A) . Another examples that‚ they both owed military service to the Lords or
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England‚ typically equal to between 60 and 120 acres Danelaw The name given to the part of England where the laws of the "Danes" were in place and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxon Homage The ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord‚ receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position (investiture). It was a symbolic acknowledgment to the lord that the vassal was‚ literally‚ his man (homme). Fealty The oath implied lesser obligations
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debt‚ the problems that came with absolutism‚ the Catholic Church with their corruption‚ and the inequality of people within the country. Some of the solutions that came from the French Revolution was the Third Estate forcing the King to abolish the feudal system‚ the passing of the Constitution of Clergy that solidified the state’s dominance over the long time powerful church‚ the removal of King Louis XIV from
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Socially because the japanese people had no know idea that their positions in the feudal system could/were able to change since they did not know that their positions could change it really affected japan’s social class Since their positions in the feudal system could change‚ the japanese shogun felt that the feudal system should only consist of foreign traders and christians to keep peace After the Edo Period‚ the feudal system went under and lower ranks spread and grew really fast Due to the isolation
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advancement for the many kingdoms of medieval times. During the Middle Ages‚ the system of feudalism predominated the society. Feudalism was an economic and government system organization that helped form modern Western Civilizations (Biel 8). The feudal system of the Middle Ages was a system of landholding. Therefore‚ nobles held the responsibility of ownership and control of their lands in this system (Melani 25). For example‚ a knights authority was based on how much land he owned (Biel 8). The
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views. The debate primarily revolves around the characterization of the Vijayanagar state – 1) whether it was a centralised state or segmentary one 2) the role played by the nayakas in rendering the identity to the Vijayanagar state 3) whether it was feudal or not. IDEOLOGICAL FACTORS – Scholars like Sewell‚ K.A.N Sastri‚ Mahalingam and others (?) believed that ideological factors played a very important role in the rise and establishment of the Vijayanagar state. They present it as a Hindu reaction
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I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud‚ written by William Wordsorth in 1804‚ describes the poet’s own experience based on his recollection in tranquility. In the poem‚ daffodils appears everywhere. Some people think the daffodils here represent the beauty of nature and the poet’s love for daffodils is also the enthusiasim for nature. But I think daffodils here not only represent the nature but alos a peaceful and pure world‚ which the poet pursue. We can get this idea from the poem. In the first stanza‚
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Economy in the Sixteenth Century‚ Immanual Wallerstein develops a theoretical framework to understand the historical changes involved in the rise of the modern world. The modern world system‚ essentially capitalist in nature‚ followed the crisis of the feudal system and helps explain the rise of Western Europe to world supremacy between 1450 and 1670. According to Wallerstein‚ his theory makes possible a comprehensive understanding of the external and internal manifestations of the modernization process
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