WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Spanish colonial society was divided into a caste system. Peninsulas were the wealthy, elite and regarded themselves higher than everyone else because they were born in Spain. Creoles were the middle class, and were often born in Latin America.

Detailed explanation-2: -The peninsulares were those of pure blood Spanish descent who had been born in Spain but had moved to the colonies, most notably in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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: -In Spanish colonies, an español criollo was an ethnic Spaniard who had been born in the colonies, as opposed to an español peninsular born in Spain. Spaniards born in the Spanish Philippines are called insulares. Whites born in colonial Brazil, with both parents born in the Iberian Peninsula, were known as mazombos.

Detailed explanation-5: -Distinctions were made between criollos, those born in the Americas, and peninsulares, those born in Spain.