Circle any words that you do not understand.

What is being described in the passage?

• Caste System

• Government parties

• Religious beliefs

• Ethnics Groups

What is a caste system?

• Social Structure

• Pay scale

• government

• food pyramid

Place the social class into the correct order: the most power first and the least powerful last

• Brahmin

• Kshatriya

• Vaishya

• Dalit

• Sudra

Where are most people located in a caste system?

• Top- Brahmin

• Middle-Kshatriya

• Bottom- Sudra and Dalit

Highlight the evidence which tells you that the Social Caste was hereditary.

Hereditary meaning passed down from the parents to child.