Another phenomenon plagued the times: the absence of women. Sexual violence on indigenous women by Spanish nobility due to lack of women. The daughters born from these unions were often abandoned in local convents as orphans. . Then the term Mestizas was used. Once these women reached adulthood, some became nuns, however the rest left and began having children of their own. However, this threatened to destroy Spanish rule. Orphans were not the only examples of inbreeding. Desperate to keep Spanish rule in place and preserve their way of life, they created the caste system. Full-blooded Spanish = top. Castista= 3 Spanish quarters. 50% Spanish mestizos. And Africans were at the bottom because of slavery, even though the freed Africans were conquistadors themselves, but that didn't last long. Since Africans began to spread among existing cultural groups. This mixing caused the caste system to collapse. The gold and financial success of the New World had much clearer results than Christian domination and a new identical Spanish