The Age of Exploration: Chapter 6, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution
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WHAT CAN BE COMPARED
Spain: a viceroy appointed by the monarch, audiencias (high courts) and local
councils in New Spain, alongside the encomienda labour grants.
Portugal: hereditary captaincies granted to private proprietors from 1534;
after only two of about 15 succeeded, a royal Governor-General in 1548.

WHAT CANNOT BE COMPARED
Enforcement, treatment of indigenous and enslaved people in each system, and
how the two empires' revenues compared; the sources do not cover them.