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The result was "New Spain" in the "New World," where settlements of about 200,000 migrants from Spain traveled to the south and west and intermarried with American Indians who lived there.  There were strict layers of social classes, and Indian slaves were used to work on large estates called "encomiendas".  African slaves were also imported by the Spaniard settlors.  The highest class were the peninsulares (from Spain), and their direct descendants born in this New World were called creoles.  The offspring of Spaniards and Indians were the Mestizo.

The result was "New Spain" in the "New World," where settlements of about 200,000 migrants from Spain traveled to the south and west and intermarried with American Indians who lived there.  There were strict layers of social classes, and Indian slaves were used to work on large estates called "encomiendas".  African slaves were also imported by the Spaniard settlors.  The highest class were the peninsulares (from Spain), and their direct descendants born in this New World were called creoles.  The offspring of Spaniards and Indians were the Mestizo.

Perhaps the biggest difference between the Spanish settlements and the English ones was that the Spaniards intermarried with the Native American Indians, while the English settlements were more insular without intermarriage.

Spanish settlements tended to be like military posts, such as St. Augustine in Florida.  Founded in 1565, it is the oldest continuous European settlement in the United States, and exists to this day.

== English Settlements ==

== English Settlements ==