WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mestizo, a term used in the colonial era to refer to a person of evenly mixed Indian and Hispanic ancestry. The first generation of mestizos were the sons and daughters of Spanish soldiers and settlers who had sexual relationships with Indian women but rarely married them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mestizo (fem. mestiza) – a person of extended mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry; Indio (fem.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Mestizo is at the core of Mexican Spanish and is used in Mexico and by Mexicans far more than in any other national community, but it has other meanings, as when Filipinos use it for individuals who are mixed indigenous Austronesian or other foreign ancestry.

Detailed explanation-5: -The mestizo population were the next highest social class. These were the children of Spanish and Native Americans. Very quickly, the mestizo population became the numerical majority in Latin America, although they still had less power than peninsulares and criollos.