WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Encomienda (roughly translated: trustee) was a formal system of forced labor in Spanish colonies in Latin America and the Philippines, intended to encourage conquest and colonization. Under this system, leaders of the indigenous community paid tribute to colonists with food, cloth, minerals, or by providing laborers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The encomienda system was a Spanish labor system in which the Spanish monarch awarded Spaniards with the labor of non-Christian people. It was different from other communal slavery systems in the early modern world because it was sharply focused on labor, not land or natural resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: The Encomienda system provided a strict social hierarchy for New Spain, while also providing the labor force needed for everything from silver mining to cattle ranching to sugar plantations.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Royal Encomiendas, belonging to the King, the Ecclesiastical Encomiendas, belonging to the Church, Privado belonging to private individuals.