Society & Inequality in Eurasia

In the Chinese society males the most prestige of the Chinese state officials. Emperor Wu Di established an imperial academy were officials were trained as scholars. They were dealing with history, literature, art, and mathematics, and with an emphasis on Confucius. In the Chines society officials came from wealthy families and their prestige that accompanied their education and a membership in the official elite. In India birth determined social status, and great inequality characterized by social life and religious or cultural traditions defined the inequalities. I found very interesting the Caste as Varna were the caste evolved from a racially defined encounter of light-skinned Aryan invaders and the darker-hued native peoples. In the Rome, society was based on slavery. In classical Athens it was a home for 60,000 slaves, about 1/3 of the population. Philosophers in Rome bought that being a slave was horrible but owning a slave was good.