Who Held Power: Social Structure and Political Organisation

What this note covers

1. Two different questions hiding inside one dot point
2. Rulers and the making of authority visible
3. Elites, officials and the machinery of administration
4. The army as a social institution
5. Women: status, agency and the shape of the evidence
6. Dependent, unfree and outsider groups
7. Interrelation: why structure questions reward synthesis
8. How this topic is examined, and what separates a top-band answer

8 sections · 12 key terms & formulas · 6 common mistakes