ABSTRACT
The population was divided into four classes—priests, warriors, office employees, and farmers and craftsmen together. There were further a great many sub-divisions, covering the representatives of every function in society. Thus, the priests were divided into judges and various priestly officials; the bureaucracy included not only the scribes, but the physicians, poets, and astrologers; and the last class comprised also traders and business men. Each class was placed under the authority of a chief, who had under him a controller who dealt with the census, an inspector who investigated fiscal matters, and an instructor who supervised the work of the apprentices. This information we have from the Arabian historians and Pahlavi theological literature.
