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The European Middle Age Social Hierarchy

The Middle Ages The boss of the my boss is my boss Like today, in Middle Ages some people lived better then others. In fact, very few had a better life then the rest of them. It was all based on wealth (like today). But unlike today when basically everybody could get rich with proper attitude, tools and luck, in the Middle Ages one should have been born in a wealthy family. The access to power and money was limited to few people . The social hierarchy of the Middle Ages was very different then our contemporary hierarchy and was based on the amount of land someone owned. Here is the simplified social tree: The King He was the head of the state, the boss of everybody else, he had the most power and was the richest of them all. His mom and dad were, usually, kings and queens too and the same was true about grandpa and grandma. Some kings were better then others, and few of them made it to be Emperors, which is a bigger, fatter king, ruling over more then one nation. The king w