Focus: How did the Encomienda

system affect the Spanish and the

Natives?
Do Now: Answer the multiple choice questions as
best as you can.

Haiti
Honduras
Argentina
Jamaica
Bahamas
Mexico
Barados
Nicaragua
Belize
Panama
Bolivia
Paraguay
Brazil
Peru
Chile
Puerto Rico
Colombia
Suriname
Costa Rica Uruguay
Venezuela
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
French Guinea
Guatemala
Guyana

As we read this excerpt

What would support the defense?

What would support the prosecution?

What should the King and Queen of Spain do in

response?

Notes: The Encomienda System

1. Post-Columbus Caribbean
- quest for raw materials
- tribute system (GOLD/cotton)
- transition to slavery

2. Encomienda System (anti slavery)

- replaces tribute system
- encourages colonization/ownership of
Tainos
- Indians must be paid wages

Encomienda System
3. Columbus and the Encomiendas (1495)
- Taino protests are put down by Columbus
men:
- 200 armored soldiers, 20 dogs, 20
mounted soldiers
- confront, attack, defeat Tainos
- King & Queen call for an investigation
- 1500: Columbus removed from power,
arrested, though ultimately allowed to return

Engravings by Theodore De Bry

1. What did you observe in the two
images?
2. Who were the different groups
involved in the images?
3. Why do you think De Bry made
these images?
4. Who do you think his audience was?
(Who did he want to see the
drawings?)

You are:
A Spanish conquistador
or
A Spanish friar (Priest)
Create a brief speech explaining the
problems in the new land, and what should
be done, to give back in Spain. Stay true to
your character!