Question

With the large amount of deaths from disease of people in the Americas, Spaniards could
not use them as a labor source for their system and mining. This led
to the Spanish participating in the slave trade.
A) Fill in the blank. Each term is used once: (4 points)
 silver  Atlantic  Indigenous  encomienda

Answer 1

With the large amount of deaths from disease of Indigenous people in the Americas, Spaniards could not use them as a labor source for their encomienda system and silver mining. This led to the Spanish participating in the Atlantic slave trade.