CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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rulers, top officials, powerful priests, wealthy merchants and owners of large plots of land
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farmers and skilled workers
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slaves
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many middle-class farmers lived in a style of home known as saltbox houses. In cities, shopkeepers, artisans, shipwrights, butchers, coopers, seamstresses, cobblers, bakers, carpenters, masons, and many other specialized professions made up the middle class.
Detailed explanation-2: -The middle class in Europe arose in the late Middle Ages, but it was very small. This was also the case in the colonial United States. In the United States this bimodal distribution of wealth became its most extreme in the Gilded Age-1860s through 1890s.
Detailed explanation-3: -The middle class is a socio-economic strata that falls in between the working class and the upper class. Those in the middle class have enough disposable income to afford minor luxuries like vacations or restaurants, but also rely on borrowing for big-ticket items like homes and cars.