FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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A system that would protect the American Indians and teach them about farming in return for labor.
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A system that would protect the American Indians and teach them about Christianity in return for labor.
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A system that would harm the American Indians and teach them about sailing in return for labor.
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A system that would protect the American Indians and teach them about Christianity in return for food.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The encomienda (Spanish pronunciation: [eŋkoˈmjenda] ( listen)) was a Spanish slave labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. The labourers, in theory, were provided with benefits by the conquerors for whom they laboured, including military protection and education.
Detailed explanation-2: -The encomienda system is a labor system established by the Spanish Crown in the 1500s. This new system rewarded Spanish explorers, conquistadors, and military men with land in the New World. But they didn’t just get the land, they got the labor of the people living on the land as well.
Detailed explanation-3: -The encomienda was a system where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract forced labour from indigenous tribal chiefs in the Americas colonies of the Spanish Empire.
Detailed explanation-4: -Under encomienda, Spanish colonists were granted a certain amount of land and the labor of the people who lived on it. The system was later transported to Spanish settlements on the mainland. Supposedly, the colonists would pay the native people for their labor and convert them to Christianity.
Detailed explanation-5: -: an estate of land and the inhabiting American Indians formerly granted to Spanish colonists or adventurers in America for purposes of tribute and evangelization compare repartimiento.