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Some surviving conquistadors settled on encomiendas, where Indigenous people farmed land for them under a system resembling peonage or serfdom.
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“live long enough to settle down on what were called encomiendas, that's local states with many of the local peoples to farm the land for them kind of peon serfdom.”Play from 58:51Report a misattribution
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