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Who Was At The Top Of The Spanish Social System?

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Who Was At The Top Of The Spanish Social System? 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

Who Was Considered A Criollo?

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Who Was Considered A Criollo? 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). Who are the criollos Why are they important?