Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in agriculture or natural resource occupations]
7. [people in agriculture]
8. farmers (people in agriculture)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People
4. people
5. groups of people
6. social groups
7. social classes
8. social classes by specific type
9. peasantry

Narrower term/s

• fellahin

Anotations

Scope note:

Free people who support themselves by tilling the soil, either as small landholders or hired laborers. For the social class comprised of these people, use "peasantry." For those in a condition of servitude under feudalism, owing services to a lord and commonly attached to the lord's land, use "serfs."