WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The class structures of Latin America are determined by the social relationships of basic economic activities. These relationships include property ownership, labor arrangements, forms and sources of income, and patterns of supervision and subordination, among others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: In the Spanish colonies, the hierarchical social classes started with the peninsulares, Creoles, mestizos, mulattoes, Native American Indians, and and ended with slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -During most of the colonial era, Spanish American society had a pyramidal structure with a small number of Spaniards at the top, a group of mixedrace people beneath them, and at the bottom a large indigenous population and small number of slaves, usually of African origin.