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Encomienda
The
encomienda
was a
dependency relation
system, that started in Spain during the Roman Empire, where the stronger people protected the weakest in exchange for a service. It was later used during the
Spanish colonization of the Americas
and the Philippines. The
Spanish monarch
would assign a
Spaniard
with the task of "protecting" a specific group of
Native Americans
.
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