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Did social mobility exist in any of the various bronze age civilizations of note? Could a lowly peasant grow to be a wealthy landowner in Old Kingdom Egypt? If so, how commonly? What about Xia-era China? Was social mobility present in any Mesopotamian civilizations, or any Hellenistic city-states?

by /u/MissBrainProblems in /r/AskHistorians

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