Hacienda
The Encomienda system required Spanish colonists to care for the native people.
Colonists ship raw materials to the mother country and purchase manufactured goods from the mother country.
The Encomienda system required Spanish colonists to care for the native people.
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take care of the native people
Take care of the native people
Take care of the native people
A legal system that allowed Spanish colonists to use indigenous peoples for labor
A legal system that allowed Spanish colonists to use indigenous peoples for labor.
latin american colonists born in spain
the Spanish government believed that the wealth of its empire in the Americas existed to solely increase the power of Spain. this meant that a monopoly of trade with her colonies and close control over buying and selling by colonists. all goods produced in the new world had to be exported to Spain and to no other country. everything the colonists bought had to be imported from Spain itself and be carried by Spanish ships....
The system of encomienda was involuntary servitude for the native tribes in the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. The natives were paid a low seasonal wage.It was important because it provided a ready supply of labor at a fixed cost to landowners, so that they could profit from growing crops on their lands.