Chapter Six: Eurasian Social Hierarchies

In chapter six you would find the information provided to be so natural and realistic. We see that the section strongly focuses on social hierarchies’ or caste systems. Class would be defined from areas you’re born to the clothes you wear, even based up on how wealthy you were. In China class would be determined on the wealth of its family, so from much land you owned and the family name. Most wealthy people in China were some type of scribe or scholar to law maker this making intelligence a priority in China. Another example of these social hierarchy and caste systems were India’s Birth “purity of blood”.  What family you were born into determined what social status people had, some of their social life, religious life, or even cultural traditions had influence upon their caste system. Then as we read farther on in the chapter we hit a section of this brutal and vulgar truth about Rome and its slavery civilization.

As I have been reading these last couple chapters I am lead to believe how important China’s history is because we could really learn and fix our government from their problems. China’s role in this section leads a huge chunk of a terrible and corrupt economy. The way China was lead seemed backwards they taxed greatly on the poor and less on the rich even let them get away depending on property. Most of China's inhabitants were a merchant, beggar, or peasant that worked on a farm. Early on in China's history its people were allowed to expand and migrate until population started to greatly increase then they were allow less slots eventually people ran out of money and sold their land.