During the colonial period in the New World, which ethnic group assumed the role of intermediaries between Europeans and Indians by serving as soldiers, supervising Indian workers on the 'font-style:italic;'>haciendas, and managing domestic servants in the town houses?

MCQs on the history of Latin and South America from the year in which European explorers first discovered and began to colonize the region to the early 19th century, when many Latin and South American colonies declared their independence from European rule.