By the end of the colonial period, the number of mixed people-meaning not white, not indigenous, and not African, but culturally and racially mixed-had grown. Why did this happen?
A) It was a product of slavery being abolished in the late 1700s.
B) It was a result of the casta paintings.
C) It was a product of centuries of transculturation.
D) It proved that hegemony, as explained by Chasteen, did not work on the ground.

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The growth in the number of mixed people by the end of the colonial period was a product of centuries of transculturation, which refers to the merging and converging of cultures. This process involved interactions among European colonizers, indigenous peoples, and Africans brought to the Americas through the slave trade, leading to cultural and racial mixing over time.

By the End of the Colonial Period, the Number of Mixed