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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Janissaries, Mamelukes, Mandarins, Samurai, Eunuchs, Boyars, Patricians come to mind
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but didn't they lose all markers of cultural continuity? Is there any Samurai cultural DNA in new class?

