FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Spaniards born in Spain living in Spanish colonies. Most important in social hierarchy.
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Children of Spaniards born in Spanish colonies. (Second in social hierarchy.
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Children of one Spaniard parent and one Indian or Native American.
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Children of a Native American and an African.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Spanish colonies, the hierarchical social classes started with the peninsulares, Creoles, mestizos, mulattoes, Native American Indians, and and ended with slaves. The peninsulares were the original Spanish people who came into the colonies, and they held the highest position in the colony.
Detailed explanation-2: -Creole, Spanish Criollo, French Créole, originally, any person of European (mostly French or Spanish) or African descent born in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America (and thus naturalized in those regions rather than in the parents’ home country).
Detailed explanation-3: -During the colonization of the Americas, the term Creole referred to people of European descent who were born in the Americas. The label distinguished them from colonists who had been born in Europe. People of African descent who were born in the Americas were also called Creoles.
Detailed explanation-4: -They quickly started to create social classes between the colonial people. As the years passed, they created the system of castes. This system was organized as a hierarchy of race depending on the amount of Spanish blood that each person had.