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Why Were the Encomiendas Discontinued by the 1620s

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Why were the encomiendas discontinued by the 1620s?


A) The Spanish crown was unwilling to see the growth of a new nobility in the New World.
B) The Indians refused to continue to serve under the imperial conditions established in the 1500s and demanded a new arrangement with the Spanish crown.
C) Despite the continued economic prosperity of the encomienda system, the Spanish crown discontinued them in order to establish a free labor system in the Americas.
D) The viceroys of the American colonies ordered their abolition in favor of enslavement of the Indian population.

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