The Repartimiento System Established by the Spanish in the Mid-1500s

Multiple Choice

The repartimiento system established by the Spanish in the mid-1500s:

A) officially designated Indians in New Spain as slaves of European colonists.
B) recognized Indians as free but required them to perform a fixed amount of labor.
C) gave voting rights in local assemblies to mestizos but not to peninsulares.
D) required all Indians to convert to Catholicism or face execution.
E) set up a system of local courts of law that proved essential to Spanish rule in Peru.