Encomienda Were

question 31

Multiple Choice

Encomienda were

• A) a Spanish system devised to collect tribute from natives and to use their labor.
• B) Spanish officials who supervised local industries
• C) taxes levied on the colonists by the Spanish government.
• D) a hybrid tortilla made partly from maize and partly from wheat flower.
• E) mission schools set up to educate the Indians.

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