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BOLIVIA'S SOCIAL GROUPS
 * Spanish rule created a racially stratified society in which whites and mestizos controlled Indians living in a form of indentured servitude on haciendas.


 * The Spanish justified colonial policies as a means of converting the Indians to Christianity, a goal that was often subordinated to there needs.


 * The Spanish also employed the preColumbian mita to require all able-bodied adult males to report for labor in the mines at prescribed intervals.
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