a region that connects North and South America. It discusses the impact of Spanish colonization, highlighting the agricultural practices of indigenous tribes and the introduction of crops like ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

THE IMMIGRATION OF EUROPEANS TO SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA TAINTED WITH VIOLENCE IN THE CONQUEST AND IN THE COLONIAL REGIMEThe main motivations of Spanish migrants in the conquest and in the colonial ...