FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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A religious settlement run by Catholic priests and friars
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A person from Spain who held a position of power in a Spanish colony
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In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term peninsulares is defined as Spaniards living in the Spanish colonies who were born in Spain. Their status as born in Spain gave them the highest social status in the colonies and they occupied the most important positions of power in the caste, or casta system, in the colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -peninsulares) was a Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, Spanish East Indies, or Spanish Guinea. Nowadays, the word peninsulares makes reference to Peninsular Spain and in contrast to the “islanders” (isleños), from the Balearic or Canary Islands or the territories of Ceuta and Melilla.
Detailed explanation-3: -o Peninsulares-Full-blooded Spanish. living the Philippines but born in Spain. o Insulares-Full-blooded Spanish born. in the Philippines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Use the adjective peninsular to describe a near-island that is connected to the mainland. Every good noun needs an associated adjective, and you won’t have any difficulty in discerning where this one comes from. A peninsula is a piece of land that juts out into the water, nearly an island.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Caribbean and the Mainland In 1493, during his second voyage, Columbus founded Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the New World, on Hispaniola.