Aristocracy

At the beggining assistants to early kings became the accepted nobility 70:6.5

The shamans dressed well and usually had a number of wives; they were the original aristocracy, being exempt from all tribal restrictions. 90:2.12

There early sprang up a commercialized nobility, admission to which depended on the performance of some special service to royalty or was granted frankly for the payment of money. 69:5.7

aristocracy exerted a restraining influence on early kings 70:6.6