FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
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Creoles
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Peninsulares
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Mestizos
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Mulattos
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Zambos
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Detailed explanation-1: -Distinctions were made between criollos, those born in the Americas, and peninsulares, those born in Spain. Criollos were considered inferior to those who came from the mother country. Those persons of mixed race-Indian and Spaniard-known as mestizos, were one of the most rapidly growing groups in frontier society.
Detailed explanation-2: -The social class system of Latin America goes as follows from the most power and fewest people, to those with the least amount of power and the most people: Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattoes, Native Americans and Africans.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Peninsulares-People born in Spain who could hold the highest offices in the New World. Creoles-Spanish people who were born in the New World. Along with the Peninsulares, they controlled most of the wealth. Mestizos-People of European and Native American ancestry.