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Europeans who lived in the spanish colonies of latin american were called <em>peninsulares</em>, which means, people from the peninsula, because Spain is part of the Iberian Peninsula.
They represented the highest class and the top positions in government and the army were usually reserved for them. They were not very numerous though.
Americans by bith who were direct descendants were called <em>criollos</em>. They constituted the majority of the economic elite in all spanish colonies, but were still below their european cousins. They were the group that led the independence revolutions in the nineteenth century.
The correct answer is B. the USSR. Many of the leaders of the Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War were very inspired by the political ideology at the present time in the USSR. They were also very interested in the military system and were sent to Moscow to study it. However, there was a conclusion shortly after that the Soviet system was not the best system suitable for China. Nevertheless, the Chinese Nationalist Party kept close ties to the USSR.
It was the main route where the Southern states received food and supplies towards the various states in the confederacy.
