1. Warm-up

2. Japan and Europe: Feudalism
Chapter 23

3. Japan Believed in Shintoism and Zen Buddhism which are polytheistic
Japan’s trade had flourished and they had a surplus of food
You could move up in social classes if you married a higher person
Samurais had light armor and their swords were light and sharp
Women had many rights

4. Europe Believed in Christianity, which is monotheistic
Lower classes couldn’t move up in social classes
Knights had very heavy armor and their swords weren’t very sharp
Knights often had low literacy
Knights were captured and traded back for ransom
Women had few rights

5. Both Had a code they lived by (Bushido v. Chivalry)
Had social classes that they were a part of (king/church, nobles, knights, serfs; emperor, shogun, daimyo, samurai, peasants, merchants/artisans)
Could kill commoners
Landowners were powerful

6. Tokugawa Shogunate
Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tokugawa Ieyasu

9. Analyzing Artwork
Late 1700’s wood block print

15. History of Japan