Encomienda System

What is of the system called and who was it started by?

• The Encomienda system and was started by the caribs

• The one world order and was started by the US

• The Encomienda System and was started by the Spanish

• The Commission and was started by the Spanish

What is the Encomienda System?

Because of the Encomienda System, something happened to the Arawak. What happened to the Arawak.

• They converted to Christianity

• They lived happily

• Got free land

• Died from died from diseases

What did the Spanish get in exchange for the encomienda system?

Spanish government's policy to give Native Americans to colonists to provide labor and to be converted to Christianity. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue native tribes.

• Columbian Exchange

• Mission System

• Encomienda System

• Asiento System

What is the encomienda system?

• The Spanish system that forced ingenious people to move to Asia

• The Spanish system that brought Native Americans to Europe

• The Spanish system that helped the ingenious people become Spanish citizens

• The Spanish system that forced indigenous peoples into labor and convert to Christianity

In the economies of the Spanish colonies, Indian labor was used in this system to support plantation-based agriculture and extract precious metals and other resources.

• mercantilism

• crop rotation

• capitalism

• encomienda

What benefits did colonizers get from the encomienda system?

• gold, goods, and manual labor from natives

• protection and education about Christianity

• land and freedom

• food and clothing

Label the Encomienda Pyramid correctly.

b

c

d

e

a

Mestizos

Native American Indians

Creoles

Peninsulares

Enslaved Persons

The encomienda system was a ____ system employed by the Spanish during colonization.