| Although there were no encomiendas in Puebla itself, encomenderos with nearby labor grants settled in Puebla. |
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| At a certain moment Pedro de Rentería, socius of Las Casas, became convinced that the system of the encomiendas was unjust, and decided to abandon it, setting the Indians free so that he might become a Carthusian. |
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| Spanish immigrants settled in sociopolitical units called encomiendas, which were in effect government grants of land and people run by individual powerful Spaniards. |
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| Finally, he ended up convinced of the injustice of the encomiendas. |
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| They did not understand what it meant to divide the land into encomiendas. |
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| Veracruz had a number of encomiendas that changed hands a number of times, but early on came under the direct control of the Spanish crown rather than individual encomenderos. |
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| The foundation of the town of Puebla was a pragmatic social experiment to settle Spanish immigrants without encomiendas to pursue farming and industry. |
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| He reserved many encomiendas for himself and for his retinue, which they considered just rewards for their accomplishment in conquering central Mexico. |
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