the ranks are: 1st : Emperor 2nd: shogun 3rd: Samurai4th: normal soldiers 5th: citizens 6th: peasants Basically, they were the high-ranking foot soldiers and the enforcers of the Shogun. The samurai were basically like the special forces of today. They were extremely well-trained and equipped. They maintained conditions on the battle field, giving more specific orders than the basic orders given by the shogun.
the military class
Both had a feudal system
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I think the clergy or Serf Feudal class was not determined by birth.
The clergy
the military class
Merchants in feudal Japan were considered lower class citizens because their item(s) wasn't made by them, they were made by someone else.
Both had a feudal system
A rigid class structure
japan
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I think the clergy or Serf Feudal class was not determined by birth.
ETA - a Greek letter and another word for Burakumin - outcaste people of feudal Japan
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a way of ranking people in feudal times (medieval europe)
A medieaval system of ranking, where everybody owed the person above them.
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