The Requerimiento

question 28

Multiple Choice

The Requerimiento

• A) established a code of laws to protect indigenous peoples.
• B) required Spanish colonists to convert, protect, and educate their indigenous serfs.
• C) obligated indigenous peoples, on pain of war, to acknowledge Spain's sovereignty and the supremacy of the church.
• D) proclaimed that indigenous peoples were slaves by nature.

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