The power of whites has its origins in the process of conquest. The peninsulars crossed the Atlantic to improve their social status. What moved them was, above all, their eagerness to ascend in the social hierarchy. The great majority belonged to the second generation within the nobility or to the third state.
In a frontier society as it was the Indians aspired to realize their desire to become the New World, by virtue of their merits of conquest, in the same way as the nobles and lords of their land of origin. By imposing their hegemony by right of conquest, the first emigrants and their descendants, in function of that domination, wanted the Crown to revert to them a power over the dominated that resembled the feudal lord over the vassals. The first social elite, who wanted to revert from aristocracy, to the image and likeness of the estamental society in which they had been born, arose from those who, as main conquerors, obtained privileges from the Crown, such as land and encomiendas.
