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The Spanish used this system during the colonization of the Americas and the Philippines...

a specific number of natives

Owner was to protect the natives from other tribes...

Teach them Spanish

Catholicism

In return, the natives had to...

Work for the person...

Force them to provide...

based on an old system where landowners could take tribute from conquered people...

In the Spanish colonies the land remained the property of the Natives...the Spanish simply "managed" the land...

History of the system

Agricultural properties in the Caribbean

encomienda = "to entrust"

mines in Peru

How long? 16th and 17th Century

Who?

Dona Marina/La Malinche

The owner got...

The Encomienda System

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