Samurai or Knights?
2006-12-21 11:21:59 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Knights.
They backdate to 9-10c AD and were born along feudal society (but yet Charles the Great had something of similar in 8th cent.).
Japanese (not chinese!!!!!!!) Samurai came later.
They or katana swords didn't existed in Heian Age (more or less 8th-13th c.)(1)
2006-12-21 11:38:45 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok I am not an expert but they could have been at the same time. Heres how Samurais are an Asin Culture based. So they kept to themselves no one at the time messed with China. But they were also known as knights. Called Samurai knights.
2006-12-21 11:56:14 · answer #2 · answered by lovethatman00 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much contemporary... according to Wiki, Samurai became established c. 1160 and exising well into the 19th century, with "proto-Samurai" existing some 5-600 years prior. European knights were first mentioned around the same time... c. 1100, though probably existed a while before being written about, and exist in a vestigial manner today.
2006-12-21 11:36:32 · answer #3 · answered by loon_mallet_wielder 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Knights
2006-12-21 11:24:49 · answer #4 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Samurai as the Orientals had a civilization far in advance of Europeans although this was not commonly known until exchanges started taking place between the two cultures
2006-12-22 07:06:32 · answer #5 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I too thought you were going to ask the chicken vs. the egg question.
But definately Samurai came first. Those people have been around forever.
2006-12-21 11:32:12 · answer #6 · answered by blulillly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
considering the age of japanese society,some thousands of years, i would state samurai had to be before knights by a long long long time
2006-12-21 11:26:51 · answer #7 · answered by dirtyoldman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought you were going to ask the "chicken and egg" question...
but anyways, I think the samurai came first.
2006-12-21 11:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Samurai.
Knights were part of the Medieval times which was in A.D. The samurai were part of ancient China during B.C.
2006-12-21 11:29:14 · answer #9 · answered by SpongeBobCoolDude 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I woukd probably have to say knights, ie; knights of the round table.
2006-12-21 11:24:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋