encomendero

C24820
concept

An encomendero was a Spanish colonial landholder granted the right by the Crown to extract tribute and forced labor from Indigenous peoples under the encomienda system, in exchange for their supposed protection and Christianization.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
encomendero canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: encomendero
Generated description
An encomendero was a Spanish colonial landholder granted the right by the Crown to extract tribute and forced labor from Indigenous peoples under the encomienda system, in exchange for their supposed protection and Christianization.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Hernando Pizarro
Juan Cano de Saavedra