There were the high ranked kings and thanes, and there were the low class slaves and even women (Crossley 61). ... The idea of inequality goes even as far back as Aristotle when he stated: The universe resembles a large and well-regulated family, in which all the officers and servants, and even the domestic animals, are subservient to each other in a proper subordination; each enjoys the privileges and perquisites peculiar to his place, and at the same time contributes, by just that subordination, to the magnificence and happiness of the whole. ... Because individuals had a judgement on ineq...

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