Indus Social Structure
- According to the vedas, there were four main varnas (society divisions)
- Aryan society was than split in a caste system based on a person's wealth, birth, or occupation
- Brahmins: India's priests
- Kshatriyas: rulers and warriors
- Vaisyas: farmers, craftspeople, and traders
- Sudras: laborers and non-Aryans
- There were a strict set of rules in the caste system
- People could not marry someone from a different class
- People from one caste could not eat with people from another caste
- Breaking any caste rules made you a untouchable which was the lowest varna