Similarities Between Japanese And American Feudal Europe

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Western Europe went through their feudal systems before Japan did, almost three hundred years in fact. Although Japan and europe did not have direct contact with each other in the medieval and modern times, they independently grown their own social political systems that had very much in common to one another. Both feudal Japan and feudal Europe had differences and similarities in this time period. Both the Japanese and European feudal systems developed as a result from a weak central government. As a result of having no strong central government politically, individual landowners gained power in both of the regions. In Europe these landowners were called lords, in Japan these landowners were called daimyo. Both lords and daimyo had