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Yes there was a class system in the 1600s and even today there is a class system, the government files you into a class for taxes today though.
New economic institutions created jobs that required skill and knowledge, rather than land ownership. New economic institutions created jobs that required skill and knowledge, rather than kand ownership.
No, burghers were the town people, who were mostly free laborers and middle class.
it practiced some modes of production e.g feudalism which had the class of landowners and the peasants
For the most part, European powers were ruled by monarchies. Perhaps only in France, after the French Revolution, were governments not led by monarchs.The Renaissance helped Europe on an intellectual basis, as did the Enlightenment. If anything, the increased powers of central governments led to an awareness that growth and power could more easily be improved by developing colonial empires. In a certain way, this expanded the so-called business class or middle classes that saw the profit in overseas expansion.
The class system focused on ones wealth and property ownership, and it was easy for an individual to move up and down in class. The caste system is based on ancestry and background, so it was very unlikely that someone's position in the caste system could change.
The colonial class system was organized based on money and prestige. The more money you had and closer you were to the leader the higher you were in class.
The class system of England and Europe
The class system of England and Europe
upper class, middle class, and middle class
Both had a feudal system
More complex
Other parts of Europe did not let woman got or middle-class either but Britain did let middle-class and woman vote
Yes, in colonial Latin America, the social hierarchy was established with Spanish colonizers at the top, followed by Creoles, Mestizos, Indigenous peoples, and African slaves at the bottom. This system, based on bloodlines and racial heritage, does mirror the feudal system in Europe which was based on land ownership and hereditary titles. Both systems were characterized by a rigid social structure with limited mobility and opportunities for those at the lower rungs.
the colonists could get property and move up the social scale.
The largest social class in Colonial America was the middle class. The highest class was the gentry.
Those who were not merchants, and those who lived on the frontier. Those who lived in the Tidewater area were usually considered to be higher class. The class system of the colonial era was determined more by location, religion, and race rather than blood (as it was in England). It was more mobile, also, than the feudal system of England.