Question

Spanish Rule The Spanish developed a complex (12) ___ system in the Americas. The Spanish government granted each conquistador the right to demand taxes or labor from the Native Americans, which turned the Native Americans into (13) ___. Bartolomé de Las Casas helped improve conditions for Native Americans. By the mid-1500s, however, the Spanish had forced (14) ___ to work as slaves on the Spanish tobacco and sugarcane (15) ___.

Answer 1

Answer:

12. Class

13. Slaves.

14. Africans

15. Plantations

Explanation:

After arriving in America, Spanish started to establish colonies for wealth and power. The Spanish developed a class system in South America, which included Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, and Natives/ Africans.

The conquistadores were soldiers and explorers of the Spanish arrived in the New World to conquer the empires (Maya, Inca, Aztec). They started to establish colonies for economic reasons.

The Spanish Empire gave rights to conquistador to collect wealth from the natives. The Native Americans turned into slaves to work in mines of gold and silver.

As Natives died because of diseases and tortures, Spanish colonies started to look for an alternative to get slaves. In the mid- 1500s Africans men were brought from Africa to work in plantation for agriculture production of cash crops like coffee, tobacco, sugarcane, etc.