Similarities Between Slaves And Emperors

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Ancient Rome’s social hierarchy is an order of social classes with producers at the bottom and leaders or kings at the top. Emperors and slaves are very different in comparison. Emperors are the leaders or kings and slaves are the producers in this case. The two were treated very differently.

In the Ancient Rome’s social hierarchy emperors are on the top of the pyramid and slaves are at the bottom. I got this information from the Lesson 4 ppt. Slide show. The emperor's are at the top because they had the most power. Slaves were at the bottom because they had nearly any power. Emperors are the rulers,kings, leaders, etc of the city or country. They were the ones who controlled the people. Slaves are people who either got pulled into slavery

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