Insults for this class of people often derived from their shoes, including “tenderfeet” in South America and “people with spurs” in Mexico. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these elites at the top of Spanish America’s colonial caste system until the early 1800s. Their name derives from their birth in continental Spain.
ANSWER: peninsular [or peninsulares] (The insults are chapetones and gachupines respectively.)
[10m] Spanish elites born in the Marianas and this other colony were called insulares. Spanish galleons shipped silver between a city in this colony and Acapulco, Mexico.
ANSWER: The Philippines [or the Spanish Philippines] (The city was Manila.)
[10e] At the onset of the Peninsular War, this Venezuelan officer dubbed the “Liberator of South America” rallied Creole elites to overthrow Spanish rule at the Battle of Carabobo.
ANSWER: Simón Bolívar [or Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco]
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