Discuss the role of the various institutions that established labor and tribute requirements on the native peoples in Spanish America.

Hint: Focus on forced labor demands (e.g., encomienda, repartimiento, and mita) that contributed to the control of native peoples in colonial New Spain (Mexico) and Peru.

Instructions:

Length: 500 words maximum
Essay should be typed and double-spaced. Cite all quotations and paraphrases. Writing is NOT a series of continuous quotations. Make it clear to the reader that you read the text and articles carefully.
Write a thesis statement (central argument) in your introduction, then develop your thesis and provide historical evidence (body of your essay), and end with a closing paragraph.
Use Chicago Manual of Style
Refer to examples, Footnotes or Endnotes1
Refer to Williamson and R. C. Padden’s “Introduction” (Tales of Potosí)2 to support your argument.
1 Edwin Williamson, the Penguin History of Latin America (London: Penguin Books, 2009), 127.

2 Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela, “Introduction” by R. C. Padden, editor, Tales of Potosí, (Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1975), xxvi.