1. Social Structure of Latin America

2. What denomination church were the Spanish and Portuguese?
Role of the Church
What denomination church were the Spanish and Portuguese?

3. Churches in towns, missions in rural areas
Role of the Church
Unifying force
Churches in towns, missions in rural areas

4. What is the goal of a mission?

5. Tried to protect Native Americans, but wanted them to convert to Christianity

6. What did Native Americans need protection from?

7. Absorbed some Native American customs
Largest property holders in Latin America
Controlled education & hospitals
Services to the poor

8. Dia de los Muertos

9. What are the origins of Dia de los Muertos?
How did the Spanish’s view of death differ from that of the Native American’s?
How does the way people celebrate Dia de los Muertos in rural Mexico differ from urban Mexico?

10. Role of Family and Women
Strong family ties
Extended family
Patriarchal (man has power)
Women had few rights, no education
Upper class women like “dolls”
Lower-class women worked

11. Cities and Villages Cities center of power & wealth
City and town layout same as in Spain and Portugal; rich used materials from Spain and Portugal

12. Poor adopted more local traditions using more local materials
Mestizos & Native Americans lived in villages & haciendas
Maroon colonies – villages established by runaway slaves

13. Class System in the New World
Use textbook pp. 464 – 469 to complete the class pyramid

14. Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Native Americans
Free Blacks
Slaves