Has any social class ever gone extinct once it has appeared on political stage? I don't mean formal legal status like "slave" or "monarch"
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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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The eunuchs in Han dynasty wd always intrigue without ever resolving anything. May have been good administrators tho. Thoughts?
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they were a check and balance on powerful clans so their role was never to resolve anything so much as preserve status quo?
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