COLONIAL ORDER

SOCIETY AND CULTURE (ORDER)

1 PENINSULARES

formed by spaniards, portugese governors and landowners

all people were 0.1 percent

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they were people with a lot of role in society, privileged, political power and control in the indigenous

2 CREOLES


were descendents of the peninsular people

educated, but without political power or social status

Provide military service. Pledge allegiance to the Crown. Maintain the most important means of marketing the crown.

all people were 22.28 percent

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3 MESTIZOS AND MULATTOS

European and native
American.

they had a other order, the second class citizens: European and Africans.

they not had political and social power

all people were mestizos: 7.3 and mulattos: 7.8

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4 UNSLAVED PEOPLE
AND NATIVES

They were poor

forbidden to politic, social and economic powers


considered like no-human or a minority (nothing, just to do hard work)

all people were Africans: 6.4 and Natives: 55 percent

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Portugese and Spanish wanted to take over all of America, so administrative institutions were created

POLITICAL CONDITIONS


they wanted control of the territory and the entire population

they divided in three:

Viceroyalties, Capitanías and Audiencias

Viceroyalties


were the representations of the king in america to be able to administer the territory well

they were

Nueva España Viceroyalty

Nueva Granada Viceroyalty

Peru Viceroyalty

Río de la Plata Viceroyalty

Brazil Viceroyalty

Capitanias

They were in charge of all military actions such as:

Army

weapons

attacks


defense of the people

audiencias


these were a form of justice in society like:

they made the laws

they said who went to jail

they solved problems

they were in charge of the legal system

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at that time it was very important to exchange or sell to be economically well


they had a trade triangle to have spices, gold and slaves, and that thigs were go to th e mopther country

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ECONOMIC DYNAMIC

Economic


For that reason four types of crematistics were created that are:


action practiced since 16th and 18th to obtain or sell valuables to survive

Precious metals


these were gold and silver since without these a nation would not be healthy and without these you could not maintain the value of a nation

Colonial

This economy reports that all possessions should be exported as suppliers to the mother country.

Monopoly

Manufacturating was forbidden in the colonies


they couldn't trade with other nations so easily, the exchange was exclusive

conclusion


We can say that the colonial order was positive and negative since many deaths, injustices and mistreatment occurred.

But thanks to this laws were created and we discovered a new world to live in society

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