In general, what can be said about social class during the late Zhou period?
a. Merchants decreased in number.
b. Social mobility for commoners increased.
c. Peasants were more restricted to aristocratic estates than before.
d. Merchants became the new aristocracy.
e. The land-based aristocracy disappeared altogether.
Ans: b
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