Latin America

Between 1519 and 1605, the indigenous population of central Mexico declined by about

The main reason for Spain's inability to prevent massive foreign smuggling to the Indies was

The repartimiento

The asiento was a

Debt servitude

A major cause of the encomienda's decline was

Until the eighteenth century, legal commerce with the Indies was restricted to

The Requerimiento

The colonial economy was

The supposed seventeenth-century colonial depression

Bartolomé de Las Casas proclaimed that

The most successful piratical attacks on Spanish America were made by

The principal source of royal revenue from the Indies was

Black slaves were principally employed in

The encomienda was

The device of composición was often employed to

Labor for the obrajes was often obtained by

A major difference between preconquest and postconquest tribute demands was that, in preconquest times,

The New Laws of the Indies

The major colonial mining center before 1700 was