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Unit 2
Grades 9-10
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The Sistema de Castas: Classifying Race in Spanish America

From the earliest decades of colonization, Spanish and Portuguese America saw far more mixing between European, Indigenous, and African peoples than British North America did, partly because Spanish colonization began with mostly male soldiers and settlers who had children with…

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