Race, Class, and Gender
Comprehension
The conquistadors of Mexico were adventurers, not true colonists.
Society was composed of three basic ethnic groups, Spanish, Indian and African.
Mestizo is considered to be a Spanish-Indian parentage, but it's helpful to distinguish the racial categories.
Spaniards were made up of more than one thousand people.
The Spaniards were in the top class, mostly known for the elite class. they had indian servants and laborers working for them. They had 3 or 4 slaves or laborers per home.
Economically the Spaniards weren't the “rich” people, they weren't the ones that were on top of the pyramid for the money.
The Spanish worked in many different things, they sometimes worked on government and some