Comparing The Social And Military Features Of Tokugawa Japan And Medieval Europe

There are many uncanny similarities between the social and military features of Tokugawa Japan and those of medieval europe, considering they developed in isolation from one another. Japan and Europe have many differences

There are many key features of Tokugawa Japan and Medieval Europe such as the structure, the weaponry and the strategies. The Middle ages started in the 500 AD and ended in the 1500 AD. Castles were made to defend and protect the king and everyone else who lived inside of it. The knights main role was to protect the barons and the king, they normally used weapons such as a lance, long sword, dagger, longbow, battle axe, crossbow and mace. The knights normally started at the age of 7 as a page, then when he turned 14 he became the knight's squire, after he was 21 he became a knight (Mr Campbell, n.d). The money that they earnt depended on their rank whether it be a king or a peasant. Tokugawa Japan didn’t appear until 57 AD. Tokugawa Japan consists of 3000 islands and 600 of them are inhabited. Education was provided for everyone and normally the more rich and wealthy people were trained to be a Samurai. Therefore, there are many key features between the two cities/ages.

In Europe, the warrior system developed new modes of warfare to protect themselves from the opposition and also as an attacking method so that they could destroy more castles. In doing this, they had to create new weapons and they had to make the buildings with iron and steel and then covered it in lead, so it wouldn’t rust. In Japan, most of the Samurai’s were known as the well-known class. The Samurai used fighting as a form of art and not fighting. The more experienced Samurai had to carry two swords. Not much of the population were Samurai, in fact 7-8% of the population were Samurai’s (Wikipedia, n.d). Therefore, there are many strategies that Europe and Japan