By the mid-12th century the strongest were the Minamoto group in northeastern Honshu and the Taira group in southwestern Honshu; the two feudal houses fought one another. Developed feudalism (late 12th to 16th centuries). In 1185 the struggle between the Minamoto and Taira clans ended in the ...
By the middle of the 19th cent. the country was ripe for change. Most daimyo were in debt to the merchants, and discontent was rife among impoverished but ambitious samurai. The great clans of W Japan, notably Choshu and Satsuma, had long been impatient of Tokugawa control. In 1854 an Am...
He came to the throne by leading an alliance of eastern clans in rebellion against the previous great king, who was his nephew. The Records of Japan describes Temmu as "walking like a tiger through the eastern lands." (This was a Chinese expression; there were no longer tigers in Japan....
The Berber clans were often fending off invaders, so they were assembled for practical purposes, built with protection and security in mind. They functioned as trading posts or were strategically located to ward off adversaries. In Morocco, the term “kasbah” in the Atlas Mountain […] ...
By the mid-12th century the strongest were the Minamoto group in northeastern Honshu and the Taira group in southwestern Honshu; the two feudal houses fought one another. Developed feudalism (late 12th to 16th centuries). In 1185 the struggle between the Minamoto and Taira clans ended in the ...
By the mid-12th century the strongest were the Minamoto group in northeastern Honshu and the Taira group in southwestern Honshu; the two feudal houses fought one another. Developed feudalism (late 12th to 16th centuries). In 1185 the struggle between the Minamoto and Taira clans ended in the ...
By the mid-12th century the strongest were the Minamoto group in northeastern Honshu and the Taira group in southwestern Honshu; the two feudal houses fought one another. Developed feudalism (late 12th to 16th centuries). In 1185 the struggle between the Minamoto and Taira clans ended in the ...
By the mid-12th century the strongest were the Minamoto group in northeastern Honshu and the Taira group in southwestern Honshu; the two feudal houses fought one another. Developed feudalism (late 12th to 16th centuries). In 1185 the struggle between the Minamoto and Taira clans ended in the ...