Chapter 13

HST 1010-06/1010-07/2010-07

Patricia Andrews

01/13/2019

Chapter 13

In this chapter we learned about the close to home conquest. The Spanish conquest done by Hernan Cortes. Which like the Columbus conquest brought with him a variety of goods from the Euro-Asia but along side with that also brought diseases like the Black Death. During this time sir Cortes allied with a local Nahua from Mexico. She had been given to Cortez along with 20 other slaves, by the people of Tabasco. This Nahua girl by the name of Mallinali or Dona Marina then became Cortes’s trusted Interpreter and also the mother of his first son. This son Martin was then the first of his kind, which was named Mestizo. Mestizo is the name referring to people who are native and European. Along with the new coming Mestizo generations, there was also another group of people being distinguished. They were known as the Peninsulares, whom were known to be of the highest class Spanish folk that came to the new world. Not only was Mexico growing but a whole lot of other places in Latin America were expanding, not just because of the Spanish but other European groups as well. It is important to remember that when the sea roads were developed the Portuguese had worked very closely with the African tribes, helping them transport goods and helping them expand their slave business. With that in mind when the Portuguese came to Latin America they brought with them a social class known as the mulattoes, who were Portuguese and African mixed.