A. artisans
B. farmers
C. soldiers
D. traders
2007-07-26 07:51:48 · 10 answers · asked by Artz 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Actually the social classes were as follows in this order Largest to Smallest....
Working Class
Nobility
Scribal Class
Outcasts
2007-07-30 07:25:45 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
At the height of the Roman Empire a reasonable estimate would have a population at 65 million, of which at least 46 million were farmers.
See the quote below for more detail or check the link for even more information.
"Breaking down the 65 million population estimate, some additional assumptions can be made:
* 500,000 soldiers (legionaries totalling 150,000 and auxilia making up the rest)...
* 10 to 30% or 6 million to 19 million people lived in the cities,
leaving the vast majority of some 46 to 59 million people to live in the country as independent and mostly tenant farmers.
* Rome itself was made up of over 1 million people and, though it would shrink remarkably after the fall of the west, no city would surpass that number until the great urban population booms of the industrial age, 1,500 years or more later.
* The slave population of Rome approached 500,000 on its own, probably half of which were owned by the 600 men of the Senate. Additional estimates have suggested that of the total 65 million people, 2 to 10 million may have been slaves."
2007-07-26 08:52:51 · answer #2 · answered by Michael J 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As has already been stated the slaves were the largest class, but then again they weren't really condidered a class at all. Farmers were the largest, then traders, then artisans the soldiers. Actually Farmers and traders were pretty close in the Roman Empire. Egypt wasn't much on trading outside their own until way later on and even then they didn't do too much.
2007-07-26 09:01:22 · answer #3 · answered by freedomfighter 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Farmers. They produced much less than modern farming so you needed plenty more farmers to feed the population. This was true until the arrival of modern farming due to the Industrial revolution.
2007-07-26 07:56:49 · answer #4 · answered by Cabal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Artisans, not to be facitious, but it is quite apparent in both civilizations. Both cultures contributed greatly in the art and literary world, architecture inclusive.
2007-07-26 08:12:37 · answer #5 · answered by Geoffrey H 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An army travels on its stomach and who feeds the army? You need people to raise crops.
2007-07-26 08:06:05 · answer #6 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
E. Slaves
2007-07-26 08:03:45 · answer #7 · answered by halefarmboy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably Farmers......
2007-07-26 07:54:50 · answer #8 · answered by Josephine 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
none of the above. Slaves far outnumbered any of those groups.
2007-07-26 08:09:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
B, of course.
2007-07-27 07:18:52 · answer #10 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋