COLONIAL ORDER
SOCIETY AND CULTURE (ORDER)
1 PENINSULARES
formed by spaniards, portugese governors and landowners
all people were 0.1 percent
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
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
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
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
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
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