Which group of people held the highest class in colonial Mexico and Central America? People who were born in Spain
People who were born in Mexico
Mestizos
Native Americans

mestizos

Explanation:

People who were born in Spain

Explanation:

During the Age of Exploration, Spaniards actually were superior calling the others there "savages" and "naive" and could control them. The people who were later born in the New World were still under the people who were born in Spain.

So the list would go as

- The people born in Spain (1st)

-People who were born in Mexico but still were birth by two Spaniards

-Mestizos (which is the blend between the indigenous decent

- Indigenous (native) and Slaves

- lowest and usually abandoned were the children of indigenous and slaves

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it increase by 12% a year from 1812-1820