The retainer class in agrarian societies
a. carried out the routine work necessary for getting the economic surplus into the hands of the ruler and governing classes
b. was composed of persons of widely varying privilege and social status
c. tended, on average, to share to a significant extent in the benefits of the wealth controlled by their employers
d. all of these
d
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