Question

How do historians know that race and social class in the early Spanish colonies were closely related?

A. Prominent members of colonial society were expected to have at least one indigenous parent.
B. Spanish colonists restricted access to Christian social events to non-Europeans.
C. The Spanish colonists emulated the race relations and social classes of the Spanish royal court.
D. There were specific terms used to divide people into different classes based on their parents' races.

Answer 1

This answer is right its D

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Answer 2

One way in which historians know that race and social class in the early Spanish colonies were closely related is that "D. There were specific terms used to divide people into different classes based on their parents' races," since these survive in the written record.