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In the countryside, the free classes included: peasants who owned land, as well as landless cultivators who worked as laborers, or tenants on properties owned by the state, temple communities, or other individuals.
The people of the free classes made up the majority of the people of society.
There were a large number of slaves in ancient Persian society. Most were prisoners of war who became slaves as the price of survival. Rebels often were also enslaved. They were not forced to hard labor like slaves were in other empires.
Slaves had no rights and were the complete property of an individual, the state, or an institution.
The Free classes in the city included: artisans, craftsmen, merchants, low-ranking civil servants, and priests and priestesses.
The Imperial Bureaucrats made up the highest class in ancient Persian society. They had crucial roles in running daily affairs of the empire, which guaranteed them a prominent and comfortable place in society.