FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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creoles
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Indians
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mestizos
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peninsulares
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus the highest level of the nobility consisted of the grandees who were the social equals of the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the Latin American colonies, individuals that were born in Spain and then moved to the Americas were in the highest class. They were called peninsulares because they were born on the Spanish peninsula. These powerful elite only made up two percent of the population.
Detailed explanation-3: -The encomienda system was a Spanish labor system in which the Spanish monarch awarded Spaniards with the labor of non-Christian people. It was different from other communal slavery systems in the early modern world because it was sharply focused on labor, not land or natural resources.
Detailed explanation-4: -Distinctions were made between criollos, those born in the Americas, and peninsulares, those born in Spain.