FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Question
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A hacienda is a large estate where they raised cattle and sheep
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A plantation is a large farm
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wolf’s (1955) article on ‘Types of Latin American peasantries’ suggested that ‘haciendas’ were associated with ‘highland’ peasantries living in corporate communities, while ‘plantations’ were associated with ‘lowland’ peasan-tries who lived in ‘open’ communities and produced cash crops for market.
Detailed explanation-2: -ha·ci·en·da ˌ(h)ä-sē-ˈen-də Synonyms of hacienda. : a large estate especially in a Spanish-speaking country : plantation. : the main dwelling of a hacienda.
Detailed explanation-3: -Typically, the focus of a farm was subsistence agriculture. In contrast, the primary focus of a plantation was the production of cash crops, with enough staple food crops produced to feed the population of the estate and the livestock.