In about 1000 to 1600 CE in history two warriors were made with a different name and in two different countries. “More than a thousand years ago, a class of professional warriors arose, who swore oaths of loyalty to noble lords and fought to the death to defend them in battle” (Overview). The two warriors were samurai and knights. Samurais were fighting for Japan in the class of military retainers of the daiyomes while across the seas the knights were fighting on horseback in Europe. To keep order in the land both regions developed a system that historians called federalism.There were more differences than similarities and here are some reasons why the differences were greater than the similarities.
The first reason why the differences are greater than the similarities is because of the social order in feudal Japan and Europe. ”Historians and other scholars use social pyramids to show how societies were structured” (Document A). The samurai owned loyalty and military service to daimyo 's for land or regular payment while on the other hand knights owned loyalty and military service to the lords. Another difference about samurais and knights was the population. Samurai with families took about 10% of Japan 's population and in Europe, there was estimated 12,000 knights in England and Normany France in the 12th century. One more difference is that there are four people above the knight in the social order but only three for samurai.
The differences were greater than the similarities. The differences were greater because the samurai and knights were both religious but they have many differences. Their weapons and armor, beliefs, and their training had similarities but have more differences. The similarity is they both practiced their religion.
John Paul Jones is regarded as one of the heroes of the Revolution.
He was a living monster for the British, especially when he flew across the Atlantic to harass the British Navy.
He was captain of the USS Bonhomme Richard ship and ran a group of smaller ships.
He ran into a large trading convoy secured by the British HMS Serapis and Countess of Scarborough.
To attack them seemed suicidal. So Jones attacked them. With his nearly 100 cannons, the British made it difficult to drill his boat, kill a good part of the crew and then offered to surrender. And he said to them, "I have not yet begun to fight."
Three hours of assault and counterattack followed, gruesome gunfire, and in the end Jones managed to defeat the British, sink one ship and capture the other.