In the ancient times, there was a social class structure in Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, Greece, etc. The highest class was usually a group of people whose profession was most important. In Egypt, it was the pharaohs because without them Upper and Lower Egypt may not be unified. In India, it was a priestly class (called the brahmins) because religious beliefs reflected their enitre lives.
In the last millennium, there have been social classes in some places too, like Medieval England. There was the king, his family, and his nobles, then manor owners who had earned land by defending the king, and then the peasants who work that land.
Does anyone know what was the first society to NOT have a rigid social class structure like this? When did this society arise? And do you see the division of social classes where you live today?
2007-01-11
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