The Repartimiento System Established by the Spanish in the Mid-1500s

question 30

Multiple Choice

The repartimiento system established by the Spanish in the mid-1500s:

• A) officially designated Indians in New Spain as slaves of European colonists.
• B) recognized Indians as free but required them to perform a fixed amount of labor.
• C) gave voting rights in local assemblies to mestizos but not to peninsulares.
• D) required all Indians to convert to Catholicism or face execution.
• E) set up a system of local courts of law that proved essential to Spanish rule in Peru.

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