Society at the beginning of the Republic

Social Studies

by Teacher Lore

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-TOPIC 

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-​DEVELOPMENT OF THE CLASS 

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TOPIC: Society at the beginning of the Republic​

Territorial division at the beginning of the republic​

OBJECTIVE: To critically interpret the historical development of Ecuador, from its aboriginal roots to the present.​

Open Ended

What can you see in the picture?

Open Ended

What are they wearing?

Multiple Choice

Click on the richest person.

Multiple Choice

Click on the poorest person.

​Glossary time

​Use a dictionary and work on a glossary of the following words:

• ​hierarchical society

• ​Social Pyramid

• ​social strata

• ​Creoles

• ​mestizos

• ​indigenous

• ​slaves

​What is a hierarchical society?

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A hierarchy is a system of organizing people into different ranks or levels of importance, for example in society or in a company.​

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​What is a hierarchical society?

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​What was society like in the early days of Ecuador?

​In 1830 Ecuador had a social structure based on hierarchies.

​He had inherited this type of organization from the colonial period from ethnic and economic aspects, in this society four main groups could be distinguished:

​Spanish people

Formation: They were Spaniards born in Spain.

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​Activities: They held higher positions.

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​Characteristics: They were the highest authority and held the most important public positions in society, in addition to imposing their religion and customs on the entire conquered American population.

They forced the Indigenous and Afro-descendants to hard work.

​Creoles

Formation: The Creoles are inhabitants born in America of European parents or of European origin.

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​Activities: highest positions.

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​Characteristics: They had wealth, power and had great social prestige. These sectors used the forced labor of indigenous people and slaves.

​Mestizos

Formation: People born of a Spanish and an indigenous

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​Activities: construction worker, Carpenters. artisans. Peons.

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​Characteristics:It was the sector with the highest population growth according to their individual reality.

​They had certain privileges and limitations, Sometimes they were taken as Spaniards and others as indigenous, depending on their predominant physique. They were forbidden: Being caciques. Be soldiers. Exercise public or ecclesiastical office.

​Mestizos

​Indigenous

Formation: Also known as indigenous peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, they are ethnic groups that are the original inhabitants of a certain region

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​Activities: they worked as laborers in the haciendas, mines, and obrajes.

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​Characteristics: They were forced to live in entrusted towns or around Spanish cities, they were subjected to the payment of taxes, they had no privileges.

​African slaves - African Americans

Formation: people of African descent who had been born in the American colonies.

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​Activities: their tasks ranged from working in the fields to housework. cook and work the land,

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​Characteristics: they were brought as slaves from Africa and in inhuman conditions, many died during the boat trip. They were sold in the market the same as with pack animals. slaves were those who had the fewest rights. The slaves did not enjoy any kind of freedom.

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​Activities that people from the coast region and the sierra region used to do in the colonial period.

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​Activities that people from the coast region and the sierra region used to do in the colonial period.

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