Answer: The colonies occupied lands between the Hudson and Delaware rivers.
During the isolation, they managed to create a distinct cultural identity and a society that reflected their values because they did not have anything from foreign lands to affect their beliefs. They eventually met economic problems which led to the end of the isolation period and the country entered the Meiji restoration.
Both European Societies and Japanese Samurais had and hereditary system of classes. The warriors were the most important class in both of them, in Japan called samurai and in Europe called knights that served the lords of the local, and had some codes about moral an ethic.
Knights had a military rank, Samurais did not.
