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Differences And Similarities Between Samurais And Knights

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Samurais and knights The samurais and the knights have a lot of differences, but they also have a lot in common. This was going on during the medieval time. It was going on between the samurais and the knights. It was going on in two places, in japan and in europe. Were similarities between the samurais and the knights were greater than the differences. This can be shown by looking at these threes areas: the social positions, war, and the code of honor. This first area of importance of similarities to me is social position. The samurais and the knights were both ranked at the same spot on the position rank, and all the other ranks were similar in a way. The samurais and the knights also would protect their or or their master in return of

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