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Meaning of "encomienda"

encomienda - a system used by the Spanish crown to control and exploit indigenous labor in the Americas during the colonial period. It involved granting land and the labor of indigenous people to Spanish colonists
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  • A system in Spain and, later and more extensively, in Spanish colonies, in which the right to exploit the labour of certain groups of subject people (initially, Muslims, during the Reconquista) was granted to conquerors; servitude within this system.
  • A permission to exploit labour within the encomienda system; an enterprise established to exploit such a permission.

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This system of labor was part of the encomienda.
The encomienda system continued to develop towards its culmination.
Indigenous peoples were enslaved under the encomienda.
The encomienda was more of a grant of jurisdiction than ownership.
They attempted to mobilize subordinated populations through the encomienda.
The encomienda lasted from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the seventeenth century.
What is the meaning of encomienda.
The system of encomienda consisted of handing over terrains and indigenous people to the encomenderos.
Social advancement was gained by overlordship of natives within the encomienda system.
Llano de la Encomienda was later placed in charge of training.
The encomenderos were then required to pay remaining encomienda laborers for their work.
Later a Jesuit encomienda and a church were established there.
The dispute was about the mistreatment of the indigenous people under the encomienda rules.
A Spanish who was trusted with encomienda was called encomendero.
Llano de la Encomienda was indecisive in his response to the crisis.

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Valdivia also granted him an encomienda in Tirúa.
The encomienda system allowed colonists to use Indian labor and.
For such service he was awarded an encomienda at Xaltepec.
The weakening of the encomienda system also hurt the Spaniards economically.
He spent several years in retirement on his encomienda in Chuquiago.
Arroyo de la Encomienda has great commercial and leisure activity in its surroundings.
These people should be compensated by being given Indians in encomienda.
The encomienda granted Indian labor and tribute in a certain geographical area.
Cáceres then distributed the Indian settlements in encomienda.
Encomienda was a Spanish labor system.
The system of government that the Spaniards established was the encomienda.
Spanish conquerors holding grants of indigenous labor in encomienda ruthlessly exploited them Spanish.
Lingayen became the capital of Pangasinan when the province became an encomienda.
He was awarded an absentee encomienda in Puerto Rico.
This regime to which the Tainos are forced to submit is called the encomienda.
Through the encomienda system the Indians were forced to work in Spanish mines.
In Guatemala the principles underlying the institution of the encomienda were those of slavery.
The encomienda of Doña Isabel endured for centuries.
Part of the marriage arrangement was the granting of a large encomienda to Doña Isabel.
Llano de la Encomienda moved to Gijón in Asturias.
The most common form in which the Spanish occupied the land was the encomienda.
The encomienda system in Spanish America differed from the Peninsular institution.
Las Casas himself argued against the Dominicans in favour of the justice of the encomienda.
It was the headquarters of the Encomienda in La Solana.
The Spanish mainly intended to spread the Christian faith to Indians and to establish encomienda.
Home of la Encomienda.
Realia has completed the construction of the Soto de la Encomienda.
In practice, encomienda became a veiled form of slavery.
The Spanish replaced slavery by forcing the Indians to move into the encomienda system.
During the colonisation, the encomienda system was enforced.
Native Americans were employed through Indian slavery and through the Spanish system of encomienda.
In practice, the difference between encomienda and slavery could be minimal.
Aguirre found Gámir more acceptable than Llano de la Encomienda.
The heart of encomienda and encomendero lies in the Spanish verb encomendar, " to entrust.
Bring the popcorn to cinema Encomienda.

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