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Spanish
settlements included towns, called pueblos; forts, called presidios;
and religious centers, called missions. The Spanish also set up a
plantation system.
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Answer:
The Spanish first stumbled upon the Americas, and therefore, were not intending to settle it initially, as they believed not that they had reached a new land, but rather, that they had come upon their original target: India. This is why, when they saw the natives in these lands, they called them Indians.
However, once the novelty passed, and as the potential of the newly found lands was discovered a bit more with each successive trip back, the Spanish decided to initate settlements here and also to start adapting not just to the new conditions, but also establishing their language, customs and traditions, and adopting the natives into their settlements.
Not long after Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, new voyages were sent out, only this time, to establish permanent settlements.
As such, the Spanish who reached the Americas settled themselves in towns which were called Pueblos, which literally means, small towns, and the people who started populating those settlements, were also denominated as pueblo. It was also used as a derogative word that meant commoner, to differentiate them from the aristocrats. With the Indians, given that they were not converted to Catholicism, missions were sent out in order to accomplish such a goal; some of the most famous missions took place in the Amazon. Also, because criminals exist everywhere, the Spanish established penitentiaries called presidios, which was where their criminals, especially of non-Spanish origin, were kept. Finally, the Spanish, especially the wealthy, took over great pieces of land and in them started plantations, with enormous senorial houses and acres where they produced sugar cane, coffee, and other such agricultural products.
