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The Encomenderos Of New Spain, 1521 1555

While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas – a grant of the Indians of a prescribed indigenous

The Encomenderos Of New Spain, 1521 1555

While the Spanish conquistadors have been stereotyped as rapacious treasure seekers, many firstcomers to the New World realized that its greatest wealth lay in the native populations whose labor could be harnessed to build a new Spain. Hence, the early arrivals in Mexico sought encomiendas— a grant of the Indians of a prescribed indigenous polity,