Who were the Spanish Upper-class?

Those who ruled rural Spain were uppermost in a society of classes in which the most important people were the nobility and the clergy, who owned the best lands and in total were the owners of more than the half of the cultivated land. Under them, there were the peasants, artisans and the bourgeois.

Explanation:

Peninsulares, 1st in social class, wealthy and had roles in government.

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