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You miss the point of the argument.
You mistook the purpose of the moat of Edo. So, I showed you the structure of the city.
"The same age" just doesn't matter.
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In 17~18 century, Wien, Frankfurt, Geneve, Bordeaux, Stockholm etc... had walls.
Even Paris had partially the wall at that time. (I do not know whether it was the boundary line or not.)
It is 19 century when the walls of the many cities in Europe were broken down.
For a long time the wall was seen as the symbol of the city.
There is no wonder that the castle town in Japan had the castle in the center of the city.
Because the city that has the castle in the center of the city is called the castle town.
the other type of city
a post town "Shukuba machi"ツ宿ツ湘ェ窶卍ャ
a port city "Minato machi"ツ港窶卍ャ
a temple city "Monzen machi"窶禿・窶楼窶卍ャ
The reason why the samurai lived around the castle is that the feudal lord needed to remove samurai from their fief. That policy is called "Heinou-bunri"窶「ツコ窶拈窶「ツェ窶板」.
Before the Age of Great Voyages, Europe was far poorer than the Islamic world and Asia.
The crops were produced less than Asia.
The slaves(the European) were European chief exports.
(The others were leather goods, woolen goods, and a little silver).
The European merchants sold the pitiful European people to the rich Islamic world(Damascus, Bagdad) and bought raw silk, cotton, coral, pearl, porcelain, dyestuffs, spice, medicines, volatile oil, mineral oil, sugar, and many products made in Asia. The European women slaves were sold at high price. They were the genuine sex slaves(harem). In 15~16 century at the slave markets in Italy(Genua,Venice, Roma) and Spain, many pitiful European people were bought and sold. In 1550, in Tunis(the capital of Tunisia), about 30,000 European slaves worked. I hear that the historical fact that the European merchants had been selling many pitiful European Christians to rich Islamic world till 16 century is seldom written in European history textbooks. Is it taboo ?
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In such poor Europe, a few people of high birth enjoyed happy life by the slaves(the European) trade but the vast majority of people led poor life. In the late 18 century, while Europe was plundering the world by violence and brainwashing(Christianity), the European common people got to lead a little better life. After the Industrial Revolution, in England the common people could drink tea.
Davis, D Brion : The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Oxford, 1966
Roseberg, Nathan and Luther E. Birdzell : How the West Grew Rich, New York, 1986
Al Qaeda wiped out the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. In 16 century, in Kyushu, the missionaries from Europe brainwashed Japanese people and incited them to break the old shrines and temples. They dragged the Buddhist statues around the town. Luis Frois(1532~1597Jesuit priest) reported that it was wonderful that Japanese Christians had attacked paganism. The missionaries did the same thing in India. Monotheism seems to have no tolerance.
In the Edo period, Japan produced so much silver as Mexico. If Japan had not closed the door to European countries(except the Netherlands), Japan would have been plundered with opium trade by England like China.
But we are not talking about the same period. City walls surrounded European cities in the late middle ages, from about the 12th century to the early 16th century (so from the Kamakura to the Muromachi period in Japan). However, there were no city walls in Europe during the Edo period, and the nobility (=samurai) usually lived in castles or palaces outside the city, usually surrounded by a big park.
You miss the point of the argument.
You mistook the purpose of the moat of Edo. So, I showed you the structure of the city.
"The same age" just doesn't matter.
:?
In 17~18 century, Wien, Frankfurt, Geneve, Bordeaux, Stockholm etc... had walls.
Even Paris had partially the wall at that time. (I do not know whether it was the boundary line or not.)
It is 19 century when the walls of the many cities in Europe were broken down.
For a long time the wall was seen as the symbol of the city.
So the main difference between Europe and Japan during the Edo period was that the castle was the center of the city in Japan, and that the soldiers protecting this castle were the priviledged samurai class, not ordinary people.
There is no wonder that the castle town in Japan had the castle in the center of the city.
Because the city that has the castle in the center of the city is called the castle town.
the other type of city
a post town "Shukuba machi"ツ宿ツ湘ェ窶卍ャ
a port city "Minato machi"ツ港窶卍ャ
a temple city "Monzen machi"窶禿・窶楼窶卍ャ
That was in fact more theoretical. I never quite understood why the samurai had to keep their sword and live around the lord's castle in such a prolonged time of peace if there was really no risk of rebellion.
The reason why the samurai lived around the castle is that the feudal lord needed to remove samurai from their fief. That policy is called "Heinou-bunri"窶「ツコ窶拈窶「ツェ窶板」.
From the 16th century, European nobles became very different from the Japanese samurai class. They were landed lords that usually didn't fight but discussed the arts and politics, sponsored famous artists or enjoyed themselves.
Before the Age of Great Voyages, Europe was far poorer than the Islamic world and Asia.
The crops were produced less than Asia.
The slaves(the European) were European chief exports.
(The others were leather goods, woolen goods, and a little silver).
The European merchants sold the pitiful European people to the rich Islamic world(Damascus, Bagdad) and bought raw silk, cotton, coral, pearl, porcelain, dyestuffs, spice, medicines, volatile oil, mineral oil, sugar, and many products made in Asia. The European women slaves were sold at high price. They were the genuine sex slaves(harem). In 15~16 century at the slave markets in Italy(Genua,Venice, Roma) and Spain, many pitiful European people were bought and sold. In 1550, in Tunis(the capital of Tunisia), about 30,000 European slaves worked. I hear that the historical fact that the European merchants had been selling many pitiful European Christians to rich Islamic world till 16 century is seldom written in European history textbooks. Is it taboo ?
:?
In such poor Europe, a few people of high birth enjoyed happy life by the slaves(the European) trade but the vast majority of people led poor life. In the late 18 century, while Europe was plundering the world by violence and brainwashing(Christianity), the European common people got to lead a little better life. After the Industrial Revolution, in England the common people could drink tea.
Davis, D Brion : The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, Oxford, 1966
Roseberg, Nathan and Luther E. Birdzell : How the West Grew Rich, New York, 1986
Al Qaeda wiped out the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. In 16 century, in Kyushu, the missionaries from Europe brainwashed Japanese people and incited them to break the old shrines and temples. They dragged the Buddhist statues around the town. Luis Frois(1532~1597Jesuit priest) reported that it was wonderful that Japanese Christians had attacked paganism. The missionaries did the same thing in India. Monotheism seems to have no tolerance.
In the Edo period, Japan produced so much silver as Mexico. If Japan had not closed the door to European countries(except the Netherlands), Japan would have been plundered with opium trade by England like China.