The Spanish presented steed's, dairy animals, sheep, and goats, also tomatoes, chilies and an assortment of weeds. As animals ate up the locale populations tall local grasses, another and unmistakably south environment emerged. The Spanish likewise presented several diseases, which lessened the Indian population by fifty to ninety percent. There was a decent amount of affect on the population due to Age of Exploration. By the year of 1611, a town in South America, by the name of Potosi had a population of 65,000 Indians and 42,000 …show more content…
The Spanish crown reluctantly agreed to the giving of encomiendas in light of the fact that it expected to give a reward to the conquistadors(The Gilder Institute). The system basically consisted of men whose only talent was to kill people, cause disorder and to torture. The rulers/kings hesitated several times to set up a New World government which would later demonstrate troublesome. The encomenderos made absurd requests of the locals who lived on their properties, working them unnecessarily or requesting tribute of products that couldn't be developed on the area. These issues showed up rapidly.
The people who owned the encomiendas were never supposed visit the encomienda lands. This was decided to condemn further abuse.The locals rather brought the tribute to wherever the owner happened to be, for the most part in the bigger cities. The locals were frequently to walk far distances a considerable length of time with substantial loads of objects to be conveyed to their encomendero. The grounds/land were controlled cruel and violent supervisors and local chieftains who regularly asked for additional tribute themselves, making the lives of the locals considerably more hopeless. Several priest told to live on the encomienda lands, educating the locals in Christianity, and regularly these men got to be protectors of the