HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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an upper class whose wealth is based on land
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practices of strict legal control over all activities.
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had divine authority from heaven to rule.
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families that pass power from one generation to the next
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Detailed explanation-1: -aristocracy. an upper class whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another.
Detailed explanation-2: -aristocracy, government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed to be best qualified to rule. As conceived by the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384–322 bce), aristocracy means the rule of the few-the morally and intellectually superior-governing in the interest of all.
Detailed explanation-3: -The aristocracy is historically associated with “hereditary” or “ruling” social class. In many states, the aristocracy included the upper class of people (aristocrats) with hereditary rank and titles. In some, such as ancient Greece, ancient Rome, or India, aristocratic status came from belonging to a military class.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aristocracy is an upper class whose wealth is based on land, and whose power is passed on from one generation to another.
Detailed explanation-5: -a class of persons holding exceptional rank and privileges, especially the hereditary nobility. a government or state ruled by an aristocracy, elite, or privileged upper class.
Detailed explanation-6: -upper class Conventionally the upper class is often thought of as equivalent to the ‘aristocracy’: that is, the (often hereditary) noble class, comprising peers (in medieval England the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons) and landed magnates (or ‘gentlemen’).