• @thesporkeffect
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    79 months ago

    This seems a little bit above “middle class”, just in terms of square footage, I am probably wrong though.

    • PugJesusOP
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      129 months ago

      Middle class is a sometimes-nebulous term. In this context, think less “an independent blacksmith” and more “a merchant who isn’t particularly wealthy”

    • @SchmidtGenetics
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      69 months ago

      I assumed this was like a “multi-family” type dwelling.

        • @SchmidtGenetics
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          9 months ago

          On a technicality slaves would make it “multi-family”, but good luck trying to explain that to them haha. Thats a far better explanation though and would fit the era I would assume.

    • livus
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      49 months ago

      Might be wrong but I think the middle class would have been proportionally a lot smaller percentage of the population than it is in modern Western societies.