Life in the City: Only about 10% of the population (1 out of 10 people) lived in the cities. Cities were neatly laid out with main streets.
-The Poor: The poor lived in houses packed together. They had very little food, and little to no sanitation.
-The Rich:The rich lived in comfortable, large houses with many rooms and fireplaces. Each home was built around a central courtyard.
Life in the Country:They lived in one or two story mud houses with tiled or thatched roofs. They had curtains on the windows. Barns and other buildings surrounded the house. Several families lived in one house to allow them to work their fields together.
Public Schools: boys only, taught by Confucian teachers.
Wow! that is so interesting that only boys went to public schools. Do you know if girls girls ever went to their own public schools? I think it's kind of interesting that the poor and farmers had to live in houses that weren't very roomy or nice.
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