Question

If you were a conquistador when Spain enacted the encomienda system, what was your intended purpose?

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Answer 1

the original intent of the encomienda was to reduce the abuses of forced labour (repartimiento) employed shortly after Europeans' 15th-century discovery of the New World, in practice it became a form of enslavement.

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