Wednesday, March 10, 2010

smaurai wil never be as lowly as knights

when you think of knights you may think they are all handsome, gallant, warriors who fought honorably to their death, but in reality they were just ordinary citizens that wanted to fight for the king. on the other hand, samurai were also ordinary people but were trained from three years old till they were ready to become a samurai. not only did they want to serve the daimyo, they were also dedicated to the code of honor called Bushido. first of all, the samurai always followed the Bushido code which had many teachings for the samurai to understand to become the person he is now. Bushido not only taught how to fight in battle, it also taught mental discipline to the samurai. on the other hand, knights code of honor was chivalry, which only had rules like protect the weak, and protect the women. but the knights code did not say they could not abuse citizens so the knights went around terrorizing the city and abusing citizens. unlike knights, samurai were very peaceful and were respected by the common people because samurai didn't go around abusing citizens like knights did. during battle, how did knights fight long distance battles? you may think that knights used crossbows, but they only used them in modern times, in the olden times, knights only had jousting and the use of swords but on the other hand samurai had bow and arrows and could shoot from a long distance. the pathetic knights probably tried to copy the samurai and tried to arrows but they obviously failed so that is why they didn't ever use bow and arrows during battle. overall i believe that samurai were more honored than knights which meant that they were higher in rank, and that meant that the knights were lowly in Europe.


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