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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 7313008, member: 115909&quot;]There has always been a middle class of some sort. It just was a much smaller one in the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think about it like this:</p><p><br /></p><p>What class would you consider the average Roman soldier to be part of?</p><p><br /></p><p>The poor class?</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok well then what about a Centurion who was paid much more than a normal legionary soldier?</p><p><br /></p><p>They weren’t rich but they were definitely not dirt poor since they got a huge income increase after being promoted from Legionary to Centurion.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are several examples of occupations like that where people made enough money to not be dirt poor but not so much as to be part of the exorbitantly rich either.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus they were the middle class even if it wasn’t recognized as such at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1278358[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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