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We all know who a samurai is and we all have some idea of what a samurai does, but samurais have an important role in Japanese history that not many know of. Samurais started when wealthy families built private armies because they felt the need to challenge the goverment. The private armies consisted of several local soilders who can also be called samurai. When samurais first started Japan was under an imperial goverment, but in the 11th century Japan became part of a shogunate, or military dictatorship. When Japan became a military dictatorship samurai became powerful privledged people.

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In Document C1, which was adapted from Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire, it says that children began training to become samurai by learning swordsmanship through fencing with bamboo sticks, which is also known as the art of Kendo. Since the samurai had practiced wielding a sword and fighting with longer than the knight, if the battle had devolved into a sword fight, the samurai would be the victor. It also says that in the same document that, “In their schooling they had physical training.” On the flipside, the knights had not received as harsh training as the samurai, mainly being a squire for a knight and learning from them, and squires were much older than the samurai-in-training who were children. And while the knights did start their training at 4 and 5, the beginning of their training focused on riding a horse (which also had to wear armor because of ranged weapons, meaning that even the horse was slow).

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