Social Classes: Good or Bad?
Social Classes have separated us since the early settlers, and I think they always
will. Social Class is defined as “A status hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified
on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired mainly through economic success and accumulation
of wealth.” (businessdictionary.com) There are three classes in the Aztec Society: The upper
class, the middle class, and the lower class.
The upper class would be the highest educated; which includes, “The ruling nobility,
priests, scholars, artists, and the scribes.” (Ch. 5, pg. 59) They are “all part of an educated elite
that nurtured literary traditions within the altepetl.”(Ch. 5, pg. 59) “They kept historical annals,
genealogies of rulers, writings on philosophy and astronomy, and tribute records on pictorial
