Which of the following describes the encomienda system set up by the spanish? a system allowing landowners to grant portions of their land to the slaves who worked it after a certain amount of time had passed a system that allowed officials to take care of indians in exchange for labor, but often became enslavement a system that imported african slaves to farm tobacco plantations in the north america a system that rewarded certain native american slaves who performed well by granting them pardons

The Encomienda system set up by the Spanish was a system that allowed officials to take care of Indians in exchange for labor, but often became enslavement.

Explanation:

The encomienda was a system to gain territories in Spanish America during the 16th and 17th centuries. Only wealthy, Spanish men could use this system. Briefly, encomiendas were large tracts of land assigned to Spanish settlers.  

Encomiendas were a form of local slavery. In the encomienda, the Spanish Crown granted a number of natives to a Spaniard, encomenderos, for work. Indigenous leaders were charged to deliver them. In turn, encomenderos were to ensure that the encomienda natives were educated in the Christian faith and the Spanish language, protecting them from warring tribes or pirates; they had to quell the rebellion against Spaniards and maintain the infrastructure.

answer: karl marx, max weber, and emile durkheim (the fourth could be considered georg simmel)

explanation:

disease was the number one killer of native peoples. they had had little exposure to the diseases of europe. this led to some villages being almost completely wiped out and some tribes destroyed.