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Exploring the roles within social hierarchies
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According to the caste system, when could a person join a new caste?
During a person's life, once they had accepted their place.
After a person's soul was reincarnated.
Once a person no longer needed to be reincarnated.
When the ruler held a hereditary position.
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These people worked jobs in government, as military leaders, and as business leaders.
Priests
Slaves
Nobles
Kings
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How did a person become a ruler in many ancient societies?
They threatened the most people.
They were merchants and had seen the world.
They were born into the royal family.
They got the most votes.
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Why was it so hard for slaves and peasants to revolt?
They had the most power already.
They didn't want to rule.
They couldn't travel.
They had few rights and there were often people overseeing them.
5
The peasants filled what role in ancient society?
All of the Above
Builders
Farmers
Tax Payers
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Historians use a pyramid to show social hierarchy because
the ancient people believed in equity for all classes.
pyramids explain how reincarnation works.
it shows us peasants were the lowest class in every society.
it shows the size of each class as well as status and authority.
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Required to do building projects, household & sewage work, farming & teaching with no rights...
Enslaved people
Craftsmen
Warriors
Peasants
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What was common among women in the ancient world?
They had the same rights in every civilization
They had the same rights as males
They had fewer rights than males
They had more rights than males
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Who made up the majority of the population in ancient society?
King
Both Nobles and Priests
Peasants
Nobles
10
Who made up the majority of the population in ancient society?
Peasants
Nobles
Priests
artisans and merchants
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Who traveled by seas, rivers, ocean, and roads to trade goods from other city-states?
All of the Above
Merchants
Peasants
Artisans
12
Other than the ruling family, these people were the most powerful and lived a life of luxury.
Kings
Artisans
Nobles
Merchants
13
Why were scribes important?
They brought goods into their society that were scarce.
They made the laws.
They kept records and recorded laws.
They advised the ruler in times of war
14
Half of the social classes in ancient Japan were people who belonged to a ______________ class.
Kings
Warriors
Slaves
merchants
15
Potters, weavers, jewelers, builders and sculptors were all ____________.
merchants
nobles
artisans
scholars
16
Which statement is true about rulers in ancient times?
They were less important than other classes.
People believed they were chosen by the gods or god-like.
They shared power with a senate?
They gave everyone equal rights.
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What is the difference between an artisan and a merchant?
artisans determine scarcity & merchants determine surplus
artisans gather resources & merchants oversee the work.
artisans buys the goods and merchants sells the goods.
artisans make the goods & merchants buy and sell the goods
