Question

Arranged from greatest privileges to fewest privileges, which is the correct order of the Spanish class system?

peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved persons
peninsulares, mestizos, criollos, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved persons
criollos, peninsulares, mestizos, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved persons
mestizos, peninsulares, criollos, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved persons

Answer 1

peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, Indigenous peoples, and enslaved persons.

Explanation: Peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain) had the most privileges, then criollos (Spaniards born in the Americas), then mestizos (mixed European–Indigenous), followed by Indigenous peoples, with enslaved persons at the bottom.