Ethnic combinations of Europeans and Native Americans and Europeans and Africans were collectively called castas, or “castes,” a term originating out of a desire on the part of Iberian and Creole settlers to draw distinctions among degrees of racial mixture in hopes of counterbalancing the vast masses of Native Americans and Africans. The two most important castes were mestizos (Spanish) /mestiços (Portuguese), born of Iberian fathers and Native American mothers, and _________, born of Iberian fathers and Black mothers.
a. moriscos
b. sambos
c. mulatos
d. castizos
c. mulatos
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