1. By Robert Walsh, Michael Deddo, and Anthony Traina Meso- America Europe India

2. Timeline 1500 – 1000 B.C.E. thought to be the beginning of the caste system (separated people by their professions) Circa 500 B.C.E. untouchables are added as a group in the caste system (performed the dirty and unpleasant tasks) 1000 B.C.E. Caste members are grouped based upon Varna (skin color) Ninth century C.E. The Mexia people came into power. They performed sacrifices to their gods. Lower class people and prisoners were sacrificed 1438 the Inca Leader Pachacuti orders a military campaign to conquest the lands of South America 100 B.C.E. The Mayans come into power. Mayan soldiers were high on the social scale 1066 C.E. William the conqueror invades England 1095 Pope Urban II launched the crusades 1122 - 1204– The life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

3. Meso-America  1) The Mexica/Aztec Empire made for unifaction in Meso- America, it was a major social development because these lands were basically uncivilized before, with the exception of their nothern neighbors, whom they conquered and spread their social ideas. The society was a hierarchal society, where Priests, Military Elites, and Artisans. They had a prominent god of a polytheistic religion, to whom they made ritualistic blood sacrifices of slaves, who comprised of In-Debted Citizens, Criminals, and Prisoners of War  2) The Inca Empire lead to a unification of the uncivilized lands of South America, thus they were able to develop under the unity of the Inca tribe, and then adopted their social system and ideas. These ideas comprised of a religious society, they regarded the Priest, Aristocrats, and Peasants cultivators. They were military and administrative elites, and their leaders were considered God-Kings. They differed from other Southern American native tribes because they did not believe in blood letting rituals

4. India  The Aryans migrated to India around 1500 B.C.E. They introduced the caste system which separated people based upon their jobs in society, and their skin color. (Varna) Eventually they added the untouchables group. These people were outcasts from society. They had all the dirty jobs, such as collecting trash.

5. Europe  1066 William the conqueror invades England and spreads feudalism. Feudalism was a system of lords and retainers where land was handed down, in return for service. Socially serfs were on the bottom, and the chain worked itself up to the king.  Pope Urban II launches the crusades in an attempt to regain the holy land. Lower class citizens fought without training, and died in what turned out to be a successful failure.  Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122 – 1204) brought troubadours with her to turn rough warriors into polished courtiers. Her work softened the manners of nobility.

6. Thesis  Before 140 C.E. most of histories societies followed a social scale. The arrival of the Aryans in India brought about the caste system which classified people strictly based upon their skin color, and jobs. Meso-American societies sacrificed humans to their gods, as well as honoring warriors. In Medieval Europe, feudalism was a decentralized system of government, that was based upon a hierarchy of lords and retainer. This was essentially one giant social system. The crusades in Europe were also based upon social status; the peasants and lower class citizens were given a death sentence by being sent into battle.