The Early Caste System In Medieval Europe

In the world today we have different levels to our social structure but mainly lower class, middle class, and high class. Before our time they also went by three levels, the old saying describing the social structure of medieval Europe as “those who pray, those who fight, and those who work.” Means that there are three estates in the social structure as the church, knights, and the workers. Those who pray are the clergy of the Roman Catholic church. There are many different people of the church. There is a social structure within the church to make sure there is no confusions at the bottom is the parish priests, then it is the bishops, the cardinals, and then at the top is the pope. The priest has many things to do as the role of a priest he has to overview the
They mostly cultivated land as peasants while depending on their lords for protection. Their lord would give each peasant a piece of their land. Then if that person didn’t think they could handle the land they were given they could sell it to another person. Then they would become a lord and the person who bought the land would become their peasant and wouldn’t have to listen to the first lord. (Page. 401) This social structure of medieval Europe can compare to the early caste system. The caste system has four levels to their structure: Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and then Shudra. The medieval structure is: King, Lord, Knight, and then Peasants. Both of the systems they person has to be born into. The caste system and medieval social structure both have a person or representative in the form of religion. The old saying describing the social structure of medieval Europe as “those who pray, those who fight, and those who work.” Is interpreted as that they pray with the church, they fight to defend their city, and that they work hard to please their lords. Also, ideas got handed down from times to make similar social