I think the answer is residence or where one lives. Some people can afford to either buy a house
or have one made on a lot. Others rent
apartments. It is more advantageous to
own a house because it eliminates paying rent.
The best option regarding the lives of the native peoples under the encomienda system would be that "<span>b. They were very poor, forced to work the land or in the mines, and died from beatings, hunger, and disease," since this was a major system of colonial exploitation. </span>
By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves.
