SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the lowest within Mesopotamia’s social hierarchy?
A
Kings
B
Landowners
C
Noblemen
D
Slaves
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Enslaved people were on the bottom, the lower class, then the middle class, and finally the upper class. The king and royals made up the top of the pyramid as the highest social class.

Detailed explanation-2: -Slaves in Mesopotamia The most famous slaves were the Jews captured under King Nebuchadnezzar. Slaves were bought and sold in the market and branded. They worked in irrigation projects, temples and palaces.

Detailed explanation-3: -Numerous slave sales from early Mesopotamia involved the sale of a slave woman and her children, demonstrating that the offspring of a slave was normally viewed as property that could be bought and sold.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the Middle Ages it was also known as the Sawad and al-Jazira al-sflia ("Lower Jazira"), which strictly speaking designated only the southern alluvial plain, and al-ʻIrāq al-ʻArabi ("Arabian Irāq"), as opposed to “Persian Iraq", the Jibal. Lower Mesopotamia was home to Sumer and Babylonia.

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