In this period much of the people were not colonists.
Spaniards and the slaves or called the Indians in the social pyramid were the most seperate, Spaniards in the top and slaves at the bottom.
The mestizo was a combination of 2 of these pyramid or social groups, they were to differentiate the categories.
There Spanish people are the fewest in the pyramid.
In the social pyramid the top class or the “best” class were the Spanish people or the Spaniards.
The slaves or the African people that were in the bottom of the pyramid work for the top or the Spaniards.
The main thing that differentiate this classes or the pyramid wasn't the money but who took the land and who is the “king”.
Each class worked in different things they didn't