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To my mind, the maryannu sound like they're analogous to medieval European knights: both are warrior elites which came into being because weapons and/or armor were expensive. Is there any general term for such elites, to which this article could link?
(By contrast, the article on samurai says the first samurai originated as clans of farmers who needed to defend themselves.)
Hmm. European knights lost their privileged position on the battlefield when longbows and pikes were invented--that is, when the cost of effective weapons dropped to the point that the elite were no longer needed. Did anything similar happen to maryannu?
Metageek ( talk) 17:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
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To my mind, the maryannu sound like they're analogous to medieval European knights: both are warrior elites which came into being because weapons and/or armor were expensive. Is there any general term for such elites, to which this article could link?
(By contrast, the article on samurai says the first samurai originated as clans of farmers who needed to defend themselves.)
Hmm. European knights lost their privileged position on the battlefield when longbows and pikes were invented--that is, when the cost of effective weapons dropped to the point that the elite were no longer needed. Did anything similar happen to maryannu?
Metageek ( talk) 17:04, 4 December 2008 (UTC)