Early American Mestizo Societies

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The early Americas consisted of Mestizo societies. Multicultural territories led to social transformations throughout the community such as the commonness of different race marriages. In addition, race and ethnicity became participating factors of a person’s status in society. The majority of women had to accept living in a patriarchal world and contributed mainly to home tasks such as laundering and weaving. Women of color and low class contributed to difficult physical tasks for the community such as labor or planting.The motives behind conquests of Mexico and Peru included imposing political authority on territories and finding resources to exploit. Both Hernan Cortes and Franciso Pizarro sought gold and treasure and conquered empires along