yeah I'm now wondering how to test for continuity of class. David Hackett Fischer's folkways model perhaps
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Many.
@vgr The Janissaries, Mamluks, Chinese Eunuchs, Feudal Barons, Doges, etc -
many of those just got renamed and absorbed/merged into peer classes with a lot of cultural continuity. Eunuch classes work
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Janissaries, Mamelukes, Mandarins, Samurai, Eunuchs, Boyars, Patricians come to mind
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Brahmins?
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still going strong, I'm one :)
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weren't those both social classes and legal statuses?
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yeah but once the legal status was removed they either evolved into a class or didn't. Nobility mostly merged into elite class.
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