Author Question: Identify and describe the social structure and classes in imperial China (Han Dynasty). What will ... (Read 45 times)

lak · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Identify and describe the social structure and classes in imperial China (Han Dynasty).

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

All of the following are benefits generated from the kula ring trade EXCEPT:

A) it binds trading partners together.
B) trading partners give gifts to each other in addition to trade items.
C) it creates political and social alliances between traders.
D) it creates high levels of economic disparity between traders from one island to another.
E) it increases the islanders' consumption of goods.

joewallace · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 10, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
At the apex stood the elite class, who held most power and authority; below them were the scholars, highly valued for their academic degrees and learning (scholar-gentry and rural-based scholar-gentry) who served in the bureaucracy; below them were the peasants whose lives were difficult, even though they were socially honored for farming; at the lowest rungs were the merchants and then the artisans. Those working locally were of a lower order than those who had wider social networks.

Answer to Question 2

D