Social classes
The social classes are:
Upper Class: Large land-owners, military officers, and state functionaries
Middle Class: Merchants, medium land- owners and industrialists.
Lower Class: Wage- earners and paupers.
In this empire people could move between the classes. a merchant could become a patriarch if they could ever get up that high. the class that you are in is determined they what skills you have in that area.
Upper Class: Large land-owners, military officers, and state functionaries
Middle Class: Merchants, medium land- owners and industrialists.
Lower Class: Wage- earners and paupers.
In this empire people could move between the classes. a merchant could become a patriarch if they could ever get up that high. the class that you are in is determined they what skills you have in that area.
Slaves
In the Byzantine empire there were such thing as slaves but they could work out of their slavery.
citizen rights
Some rights that you had as a citizen of the empire was that citizens couldn't be submitted to torture. you had the right to have a lawful marraige, could be sentenced to death unless you were found guilty, and you have the right to trial.