Ch 5
- Exam system was created nationwide
- Entry into the civil service was based on passing a difficult exam on the Confucian classics
- All Males
- only those with access to enough wealth to spend time studying for the exam would succeed
- system favored the wealthy as poorer people didn't have the funds to study the test due to work or other reasons
- Lower class would have to pay the maintenance of the military and labor of the state
- They would have to pay rent and certain taxes to be allow to occupy the space of the conquering land
- most Indians saw and utilized the caste division of society. Split into four groups as natural consequence of the world making up the body of Purusha the god
- The "Untouchables" had the worst dirtiest occupying jobs (11)
- The 3 P's Purity, pollution, and privilege
- The system was obsessed with ideas of elite purity and lower caste pollution
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