Still, she wrote plays and poetry, she studied math and natural science, and for being one of the leading minds of the 17th century, she was widely attacked and eventually forced to abandon her work and sell all 4,000 of her books. That's a shame because she had a great mind, once writing that Aristotle would have written more if he'd done any cooking. Couple other things. First, Latin America led the world in transculturation, or cultural blending. A new and distinct Latin American culture emerged mixing 1. whites from Spain called peninsulares, 2. whites born in the Americas called creoles, 3. Native Americans, and 4. African slaves.