FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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In Spain’s American colonies, a person of mixed Spanish and Indian background
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Land granted to Spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
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Large estate farmed by many workers
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -mestizo, plural mestizos, feminine mestiza, any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction.
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: -The word mestizo itself is of Spanish origin; it was first used in the Americas to describe people of mixed Native American and European ancestry.
Detailed explanation-5: -The term was used as an ethnic/racial category for mixed-race castas that evolved during the Spanish Empire. Although, broadly speaking, mestizo means someone of mixed European/Indigenous heritage, the term did not have a fixed meaning in the colonial period.