Society

Society:            D -               (Betsy)
Axum Empire doesn’t approve of everyone being treated the same. Instead they had four classes. The fourclasses are (in order): High-Ranking Lineages, Low-Ranking Lineages,Endogamous, and Slaves and Decedents of slaves. The high and low-rankinglineages didn’t ever want to be seen with Endogamous or Slaves and Decedents ofslaves. They classified the four classes by amount of education, neighborhoodin which they lived (wealthy lived in urban areas, poor lived in the ruralareas), and job one holds (lawyer= high classes, leather workers= low classes).In fact the two upper classes had the two lower classes work for them as slaveseven if they weren’t meant to be slaves. If you owned land you most likely hada slave(s) to work the field for you. Only the upper classes owned land. Theslaves that belonged to the Aksumites were treated horribly, bad. The slaveshad to obey all the rules the owner of them put into place, which was calledthe feudal arrangement which was set up to ranch the ground. Slaves alsocouldn’t talk back, or rebel against their owners because they were the lowestclass. If the slaves happen to rebel the owners could either have them shippedoff somewhere else, beaten, and/or put in jail. The Aksumite Slaves were tradedfor other products the people in Axum needed. Finally the social movement wasnot allowed because the classes were so separated from each other. 
I gave the Axum Empire a D- becausethey didn’t have equality, they had classes. They also had slaves and treatedthem horrible. The last slave was emancipated by the EDLF government in thelate 1970’s.