Question

define encomienda. how was encomienda an example of imposing old world culture on natives of the new world?

Answer 1

The encomienda was an example of imposing old world culture on natives of the new world and it was a system of mutual obligations between indigenous people and colonists.

What was the encomienda?

It was the 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.

In return for this, the Europeans were expected to give military protection to the labourers and offer them the opportunity to be converted to Christianity by funding a parish priest.

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