Question

What is one difference between the encomienda system and the repartimiento system of Spanish colonial America

Answer 1

Answer:

One difference between the encomienda system and the repartimiento system of Spanish colonial America was that the encomienda system gave Spanish colonists control over American Indians in a specific area.

Explanation:

The encomienda was a Spanish labor system implemented in a large scale during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. The system granted a conqueror a specific amount of natives from a specific community, and it was up to the conqueror to decide which of those natives would have to provide their labor. The encomienda was a form of slavery in which one person had total control over another one. The Repartimiento, although also considered a colonial labor system, was different from the encomienda as there was not a conqueror who had total control over a group of people, but rather that a group of natives were forced to low-paid or unpaid labor for a certain number of weeks or months a year, in territory governed by the Spanish crown.

Answer 2

In Repartimiento System the indigenous labor was not owned and enslaved   as in Encomienda system. In the former they were free in some areas as compared to the latter.

Most Importantly the Encomienda system gave Spanish colonists control over the American Indians in a specific area.