The Samurai

question 40

Multiple Choice

The samurai

• A) were a hereditary warrior class in medieval Japan recruited in Manchuria and Siberia.
• B) were similar medieval European knights.
• C) were the oath-pledged military retainers of the shogun, constituting a formal national army.
• D) took oaths of poverty, chastity and obedience before their formal investiture.
• E) were recruited from the peasant class.

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