A grant from the Spanish crown to a meritorious Spaniard to exercise control over a specific place including inhabitants is called?

A grant from the Spanish crown to a meritorious Spaniard to exercise control over a specific place including inhabitants is called?

• A. Quorum
• B. Encomienda
• C. Civil Rights
• D. Human Rights

Answer: (B)

This item tests the encomienda system. A grant from the Spanish Crown to a meritorious Spaniard to exercise control over a place and its inhabitants describes the encomienda. Encomienda was a royal grant that gave a colonist the right to collect tribute and require labor from Indigenous people in a defined area, in exchange for protection and Christian instruction. It was a formal, legal mechanism backed by the Crown, used to organize conquest and colonization of the Americas and other territories. This differs from a quorum, which is about the minimum number of people needed to conduct business, and from civil rights or human rights, which are universal protections rather than colonial governance privileges.

This item tests the encomienda system. A grant from the Spanish Crown to a meritorious Spaniard to exercise control over a place and its inhabitants describes the encomienda. Encomienda was a royal grant that gave a colonist the right to collect tribute and require labor from Indigenous people in a defined area, in exchange for protection and Christian instruction. It was a formal, legal mechanism backed by the Crown, used to organize conquest and colonization of the Americas and other territories. This differs from a quorum, which is about the minimum number of people needed to conduct business, and from civil rights or human rights, which are universal protections rather than colonial governance privileges.