FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Detailed explanation-1: -Historical Origin At the top of the social pyramid were white peninsulares, or Spaniards born in Spain, followed by white criollos, or the children of Spanish born in the New World. The mestizo population were the next highest social class. These were the children of Spanish and Native Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term mestizo means mixed in Spanish, and is generally used throughout Latin America to describe people of mixed ancestry with a white European and an indigenous background.
Detailed explanation-3: -Those persons of mixed race-Indian and Spaniard-known as mestizos, were one of the most rapidly growing groups in frontier society. Bearing Spanish names but a culture that was a mixture of Indian and Spanish, they became the backbone of the Spanish empire in the Americas.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mestizo (fem. mestiza) – a person of extended mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry; Indio (fem.