Word: feudality
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...16th century Japan a thief is saved from crucifixion because he looks like Lord Shingen, a clever and determined warlord who may have the strength and wit to unite a feudal nation under his banner. It is his idea to train the criminal as his double, against the day he himself is wounded or otherwise unable to inspire his troops in battle. This, in time, the kagemusha, or "shadow warrior," successfully manages. But then the dying leader conceives the notion of having his stand-in attempt a more difficult impersonation: Shingen wants the kagemusha to take over his life entirely...
...coast to industrial towns like New Bedford and Fall River, where cotton mills provided work. From there, many Portuguese--particularly those from the eastern Azorean island of Sao Miguel--settled in Cambridge. Once settled, the Portuguese could bring their families over from the Azores, rural islands with an almost feudal government...
...centuries the tribes along the southern gulf coast embodied the essence of Araby. Bedouins roamed the desert in the vast inland stretches of Abu Dhabi. Savvy merchants turned Dubai into a notorious smuggling port. A great seafaring tribe, the Qawasim, ruled Sharjah and dominated the gulfs coastal routes until feudal intrigue and British colonial meddling fractured their holdings into independent emirates...
SHOGUN (Sept. 15-19, NBC). As his opening bid in this high-stakes game, Silverman has scheduled the twelve-hour mini-series of James Clavell's novel Shdgun. This saga of an Elizabethan seaman's initiation into the ways of feudal Japan has sold over 4 million copies, and soon another 3 million will be on sale. The NBC version cost over $20 million, perhaps the most ever spent for a TV film...
...Christians, mainly Arabic-speaking Maronites, who make up about 42% of Lebanon's 3 million population, control the eastern sector of Beirut and some 400 miles of northern hinterland. The Christians in Beirut are themselves divided, along feudal family lines, into two main warring factions-the strongly rightist Phalange, headed by 75-year-old Pierre Gemayel, and the slightly more moderate National Liberal Party of former President Camille Chamoun...