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In 1519, Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes overthrew the Aztec empire in Mexico and setup a Spanish colony. A Native American woman named La Malinche who served as his translator. Although she was Cortes’s slave, she played van important role in conquering a massive empire with only a small army. Eventually they fell in love and Martin was the result and thus the son became one of the first examples of ‘mestizo’, a racial category used in Latin America to describe those with both Native American and Spanish ancestry. Mestizo roughly translates from Spanish to English as mixture. When the Spanish began to colonize Latin American, they created a social class system regulating the newly conquered territories. They used a racial system to categories the people.
The highest social classes were white Peninsulares or Spaniards who were born in Spain and white Criolllos who…
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