AP World History: Modern / Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections (c. 1450–1750)
4.7 Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750
Notes
Empires created new hierarchies: the Spanish casta system (peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattoes, Native and enslaved Africans). Rulers sometimes relied on certain ethnic or religious groups.
Practice
In the Spanish colonies, the highest social group was:
Top of the casta system.
Mestizos were people of:
Casta category.
Creoles were:
Below peninsulares.
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