Question

Examine the image and answer the question below.
Spanish casta painting categorizing mixed-race children
Eighteenth-century Spanish casta painting. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons
This painting was intended to:
Choose 1 answer:
Choose 1 answer:
(Choice A) illustrate the effects of European diseases in the New World.
A
illustrate the effects of European diseases in the New World.
(Choice B) promote Spanish fashions to wealthy colonial consumers.
B
promote Spanish fashions to wealthy colonial consumers.
(Choice C) define individuals’ social status in Spanish North America.
C
define individuals’ social status in Spanish North America.
(Choice D) exclude indigenous and African people from society.
D
exclude indigenous and African people from society.

Answer 1

The correct answer is: **C) define individuals’ social status in Spanish North America.**

Spanish casta paintings were used to categorize and depict the mixed-race children resulting from unions between Europeans, Indigenous people, and Africans, illustrating the complex social hierarchies and classifications within colonial society.