ANTB18H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Charles Iii Of Spain, Rajendran, Miscegenation
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Conquered women: purity of blood: this was transformed from a religious principle in spain to a racial one in america. In the conquest, the domination and exploitation of the local population produced an unequal society. But it doesn"t have to be on the basis of racial differences. In spain, status was determined by variety of factors: heredity nobility, religious affiliation, sex and even in skills and prowess. From the 16th century, the term castilian term appears in a negative sense. Moriscos soon became the objects the discrimination based on the doctrine of purity of blood . Endogamy (custom of marrying within clan) and legitimate birth became important guarantors of purity of blood. In the 16 and 17th centuries, voluntary european immigration and the forced importation of. Social ranking became more and more obviously based on racial rather than religious criteria.
