society and inequality in Eurasia/North Africa
- Officials and/or bureaucrats represented the social and cultural elite of the Chinese civilization. Chinese families were to send a man in the household to present to the capital for official positions. They were tested on their performance and we’re later based on that.
- The elite officials were the ones who could afford to go to school and were considered pro eleven because they were bright scholars. The wealthy came from the wealthy and the ones who owned land.
- It’s interesting to me because they tax the poor more than the wealthy which still is true today in society. The vast majority of the population were peasants that lives in small households and were able to continue with their lives into the next generation with a little money they had although they could barely survive. The fact that the peasants still tried to make ends meet proves that they were determined. “ during the Han Dynasty growing numbers of impoverished and desperate peasants hard to sell out to large landlords and work as tenants were sharecroppers on their estates”(221). Margins didn’t have a will reputation as they were considered lazy and were the stereo typical greedy person that sold work in order to gain their luxury.
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