Dbq Social Classes

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Since the beginning of civilizations there as always been social stratification or an arrangement in social classes. For instance, there would be the lower class, middle class and of course upper class. Then there is also social inequality. Based on documents from 1000 B.C.E through 465 B.C.E, I can analyze the causes of, and responses to, social inequality during the Classical Age, as well as explaining how one’s status within society influenced one’s perspective of events in that society. Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society. My first grouping would be documents 1, 4, and 6 because they all pertain to the leaders of the societies that caused the inequality. Document 1 is a wall relief from the palace of Sannacherib at Nineveh in 704-681 B.C.E. This wall relief shows the ruler or leader sitting at the top of a hill watching his slaves being brutally treated as they do hard work. His amount of power caused him to control his slaves to do hard work without remorse or sympathy towards them which caused the social inequality. Document 4 is an inscription at Behistun, written by Persian king Darius in 500 B.C.E. Darius said that he was helped by the God because he did good and not evil. This might be a response to social inequality because he stated that he didn’t do anything wrong to the weak nor the powerful, but anyone that was against him, he would kill. It is evident that Darius was not for social inequality to the innocent but had to prove himself a powerful leader if confronted the situation. Document 6 is by a Greek historian Herodotus describing Persian King Xerxes ordering a bridge to be built to transport his troops over the Hellespont strait from 486 –

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