nterests often took priority over the needs of the whole nation."(5) This means that the Daimyos often looked out for their own well-being and raising their power rather than helping out their province as a whole.All and all, after analyzing my information, I believe that counts and daimyos were generally the same. Both were governors of a subsection of their empire, and they eventually took control of their area. Also both positions ended up being hereditary, only counts were originally granted their land by merit. Even though the two cultures were thousands of miles apart, they both were able to develop a similar social structure....
