Taking Sides: Classes in Western Civilization

Classes in Western Civilization Categories, groups, and classes are always seen in society. No matter the time, no matter the century. They are unacknowledged as necessary for a society to function. They give place and order to society, and build up its foundation by giving everyone their place, their expectations, their limits. It is by these classes that rules and laws are constructed from. Different countries have different laws due to the classes found in them. In the Western Civilization there were quite a few classes throughout all the different eras, times, and locations. I will touch base on the most significant, and obvious ones in my opinion. Those classes being found in grand variety from Mesopotamia to Egypt to the Roman Republic. The main, major classes specifically being : Men, women, patricians, and plebeians.
In Egypt there were many different roles; different standings. From the pharaoh, to the slaves, up to those whom served the pharaoh directly. Different places earned you different rights, some good some bad. In example, if one were to be pharaoh, which was a place earned thru birth and family, when you were to pass, to their belief, the afterlife - your burial alone would be a grand piece of perfection. You’re internal organs were carefully pulled out, you were carefully wrapped with your prized possessions; at times even with your servants (In those times you were believed to go to the afterlife and what’s a pharaoh without the help of his/her humble servants), then covered with a gold sculpted mask made out to represent your characteristics with the most eccentric of designs. Now if you were a servant, less extent of perfection was sought out. You would have your internal organs merely melted from the inside with some sort of chemical, intermediately wrapped and then buried. Those servants whom would not serve for the pharaoh were agricultural laborers; they were those whom developed the grand, architecturally magnificent pyramids.