La Malinche, otherwise known as Dona Maria, Malinalli, Malintzan. In the 1500s series of new trading techniques were established. Triangle Trade between the West Indies, Africa, and Europe was introduced. The Columbian Exchange, which was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases and technology with Europe and Native America, was also introduced. Several explorers, were very famous at the time, as they played an important role in the history of Latin America. The social classes at the time was ranked as peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattoes, and native americans, and black slaves. La Malinche established a life for herself in a strict hierarchy through the background information on her life, her being a rule follower, and the global trends of the 1500’s affecting her. …show more content…
La Malinche was an Aztec, who lived in the Mexico Gulf Coast. At the beginning of La Malinche’s life, her father had died, her mother then remarried and had a child. La Malinche was now a step child to her family and her mother believed she served no purpose there, so her mother decided to fake the death of Malinche, and sell her as a slave to the Tabascans. Beginning her life as a slave, Malinche was at the bottom of the social hierarchy, she had remained as a slave until 1519. In 1519, the Spanish received twenty slaves from the Tabascans. La Malinche was one of the twenty that were given to them. Malinche was continually being pointed out for her beauty, and Hernan Cortes intended to give her as a gift to Alonso Hernández Puertocarrero, but instead he decided to keep her as a