The image depicts the encomienda system. The Spanish encomienda and repartimiento systems exemplified which commonly held beliefs of European colonizers? Through contact with a European empire, native cultures should be educated in Western knowledge so that they could be integrated as citizens.
As a conquering force, the European empire was entitled to tribute by subjugated people as payment for the empire’s continued protection and positive influence.
European empires were obligated to punish through forced labor peoples who rejected Christian conversion.
European empires held that native peoples could earn citizenship by demonstrating loyalty to the conquering empire through work.