In a feudal system, a vassal, akin to a serf in most contexts, in general worked land on a lord's fiefdom in exchange for some of the produce from the land and some military protection.
Enconmienda differed from slavery in that the Spanish designed the system partly as an economic one, but also as a means of civilizing/Christianizing the indigenous peoples of Latin America and the American Southwest. Slavery, on the other hand, was purely an economic system and instead of encompassing indigenous peoples, it involved the forced relocation of inhabitants of Africa to North and South America.
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Found this off of google, "Assigned the task of locating the fabled Seven Cities of Cíbola in the New World for Spain, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, governor of the New Galicia province of New Spain (present Mexico), left Compostela in February 1540."
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The answer is he claimed new York harbor and the Hudson River for the Dutch. It was later named after him
