four occupations were the "mean people" (Chinese: 賤民 jiànmín), outcasts from "humiliating" occupations such as entertainers and prostitutes. The four...

and the lower class consisted of commoners categorized into four occupations (or "four categories of the people", namely scholar-officials, peasants...

most of Silesia) and divided the remaining "Germany as a whole" into four occupation zones, each administered by one of the Allies. All territories annexed...

in texts like Manusmriti, which describes and ranks four varnas, and prescribes their occupations, requirements and duties, or Dharma. Brahmins: Vedic...

provisoire’. A significant number of post-1945 occupations have lasted more than two decades, such as the occupations of Namibia by South Africa and of East Timor...

the hereditary aristocracy. Imperial China divided the country into four occupations or classes, with the emperor ruling over them. Throughout this time...

military occupations, both historic and contemporary, but only those that have taken place since the customary laws of belligerent military occupation were...

Neo-Confucianism, which led the government to divide society into four classes based on the four occupations. The samurai class claimed to follow the ideology of bushido...

privately cultivated by farmers, or nong in Chinese, one of the occupations of the four occupations system; and the center section (公田; gōngtián) was communally...

supreme commander by General Matthew Ridgway in 1951. Unlike in the occupations of Germany and Austria, the Soviet Union had little to no influence in...