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Military Revolutions: The Japanese Pikemen And The European Arquebusier

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The Social Impacts of Military Revolutions

The emergence of the Japanese Pikemen and the European Arquebusier brought forth radical changes in military tactics, yet as shown, their forthcoming resulted in more than just evolution on the battlefield. Since the democratization of violence and decentralization of power drive all military revolutions, it is not unreasonable to assert that there could be trends which describe the social impact of military revolutions. With this in mind, despite being two separate civilizations, there are clear connections between Medieval Japan’s relationship with the Ōnin War and Medieval Europe’s experience with the Italian Wars. There are six of them. These civilizations were technologically different, yet the negligible effect this has on making these trends allude to more than sheer coincidence. Perhaps these trends could help explain other military revolutions. Regardless, these six trends help describe how these two medieval societies responded to the military revolutions that challenged the military thinking, power structures, and cultural views of their time.
The zero-sum game of weapons is the first trend. In both societies, it is quite clear that horsemen rapidly lost favor on the battlefield as pikemen or arquebusiers …show more content…

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