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Knights and Samurai have many similar characteristics because they performed similar functions at similar levels of technology. Their functions were to be on call to fight, to do so with sword and other weapons while using protective armor. Both could be considered minor nobility and might have responsibility for administering lands subject to their lord.

There were, however, substantial difference between the two groups, not least of which is that Samurai were highly literate and read and created poetry and participated in other aesthetic practices that European Knights would have considered to be unmanly.

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