Spain granted encomiendas - legal rights to native labour - to conquistadors who could prove their service to the crown.
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Brief definition: encomiendas
A system used by the Spanish in colonial America where land and the labor of local people were granted to colonists in exchange for their protection and Christianization.
3 sentences with “encomiendas” — examples
Some native peoples who had sided with the conquistadors, such as the Tlaxcalteca, were also granted encomiendas; Malintzin, the Nahua woman who helped Cortés defeat the Mexica, was granted one.
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Under the viceroys were wealthy nobles (often originally successful conquistadors) who ran encomiendas, feudal estates with the legal right to exploit native labour. These often grew into even larger haciendas, the size of entire states in Europe.
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