Under the _______ system, Spanish conquistadores were rewarded with local villages and control over the local labor force.…
Francisco de las Casas was born in Francisco de las Casas was born in Trujillo, Caceres in 1469.…
La Llorona or as most people know as “the weeping woman” was a lady in the 16th century that desperately wanted to marry a nobleman. La Llorona kept trying so hard to get the nobleman to marry her but still never would. One day La Llorona was thinking to herself and she thought that maybe he didn’t want to marry her because she had three kids, so she took her children to the river and drowned all three of them. La Llorona came to the nobleman after she drowned her kids and told him what she had done with her children and that he can finally marry her without worrying about having kids. The nobleman still didn’t want to marry her and instead he married someone else so La Llorona went to the river and drowned herself and people say that if you…
Ignacio Jose de Allende y Unzaga is best recognized as a Mexican-born officer who joined the Spanish army and fought for independence. Ignacio Allende was born in January 21, 1760 in San Miguel el Grande where his service years in the military were 1802-1811. The town is now called San Miguel de Allende in his honor. Allende was raised by a wealthy Spanish criollo family and soon after had the privilege to fight alongside the “Father of Mexican Independence,” Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla which at the beginning succeeded in their attempt to win independence but some differences were encounter and were executed later on in June and July of 1811. Unfortunately, when he decided to go for a military career in 1802, he married but his wife, Maria de la Luz…
8. Encomienda-a system that permitted the conquering Spaniard to collect tribute from the natives and use them as laborers. In return, the holders of an eoncomienda were supposed to protect the Indians, pay them wages, and supervise their spiritual needs…
4. Encomienda: A brutal Spanish system designed to reward conquistadores in the New World by granting them local villages and control over native labor. In this system, important Spaniards were given native slave communities. The Spanish would provide protection and education for the laborers. This wasn’t thought to be anything like slavery, but in reality was just a glorified form of slavery. This led to some of the greatest problems in the colonial era.…
6.The encomienda in the Spanish Americas was a legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies. It is mostly based upon the existing tribute from the Muslim and Jews. It provided a cheap labor…
The most delicious drink was found by Christopher Columbus, but it became popular because of a Spanish Conquistador named, Hernandez Cortez. What is this drink, you ask? No, it is not coffee. It is hot chocolate. In this paper, I will tell you how hot chocolate came to be today and why you need to thank Hernandez Cortez. I will also tell you how it’s different from history.…
Spain is a beautiful country with rugged mountain ranges and soft sand beaches, Gothic cathedrals, mosques, and more. Spain is one of the most visited countries in the world. It is located in South Western Europe, and borders two different seas: the Mediterranean Sea and the Balearic Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean. Most areas of the country enjoy three hundred days of sunshine every year.…
Encomienda – legal system that was employed mainly by Spanish to regulate labor and autonomy – Allotment…
13. The system of coerced labor in New Spain grew directly out of Spaniards’ assumption that…
In addition, the Spanish forced the natives to provide slave labor to build churches, as well as work in mines and farms for the encomenderos. These encomenderos were Spanish colonists whose role was to protect the local natives from hostile Indian tribes.…
Bartolome` de Las Casa had a very different view of the Indians than the majority. Las Casa was against the mistreatment of the Indians. Las Casa tried to convince the Spanish to change their attitudes towards the Indians. He committed his life to being an advocate for the Indians and urging people to treat them better.…
* Amerindians forced to do unpaid labor to build roads, buildings, and other infrastructure in towns through the Encomienda System (S.W.)…
The Spaniards inability to have the different cultural groups to work in harmony and thereby reap much was the main issue. The natives included the Indians and the Negros that had come as slaves. The fusion of these two groups with the Spaniard brought about the Latin American civilization (Arnade, 1960). The Spanish government with an aim of amalgamating the different civilizations instituted institutions such as encomiend (Mathers, Mitchem, & Haecker, 2013.). However, this was a failure because of the different cultural practices. The natives in different regions had very different civilizations. Therefore, the institutions were not effective. In addition, there was no need of putting the Negros present in the region into the system since they were not the majority. Therefore, this amalgamation system did not bear fruits as pertains to smooth governing of the…