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

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

What is the goal of a mission?

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

What did Native
Americans need protection from?

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

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

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

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

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

Use textbook pp. 464 – 469 to complete the class pyramid

Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos
Native Americans
Free Blacks
Slaves