Life in the Spanish Colonies

Which group had the highest rank in the social pyramid of colonial Spain?

• Creoles
• Mestizos
• Mullatoes
• Peninsulares

True or False? Peninsulares were people born on the peninsula of Spain and only made up 2% of colonial pop.

• True
• False

Name of people at top

• Peninsulares
• Africans
• Amerindians
• Mestizos and Creoles

The red is

• Portugal's naval base empire
• Spain's land based empire
• The 13 Colonies
• the Philippines

• Before Christopher Columbus
• After Christopher Columbus

Creoles were people born in the New World, but descended from people born in Spain. They were the least powerful class

• True
• False

Mullatos made up most (45%) of the harsh social pyramid. They were:

• Creoles
• People born in Spain
• people with African and Native American heritage
• people with only African heritage

True or False? African slaves were the 2nd smallest social group

• True
• False

Click the one that is false

• Working conditions for Mullatos+slaves were awful
• Starvation was a huge concern
• Plantation work was easy
• Most people were poor and had few rights

Africans were sold into slavery because

• the people agreed to it
• the Europeans were ethical (good)
• Diseases meant many who went to the New World died
• the Europeans did NOT want to make money