The institution of encomienda allowed the
A) native people to enslave members of other tribes.
B) Europeans to marry Native Americans.
C) European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to try to Christianize them.
D) governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.
E) Europeans to establish an economy based on capitalism.

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The encomienda system was a grant of land in the Spanish colonies that gave a Spanish settler the right to force the indigenous people living on the land to work in exchange for protection and religious instruction. The Spanish government granted encomiendas on the condition that settlers would try to Christianize the indigenous people. Therefore, the encomienda did allow European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to try to Christianize them.

The Institution of Encomienda Allowed the