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| =History of Venezuela=
| | <center>| [[Venezuela's Economy]] |</center> |
| '''Colonial Economy:
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| *Spanish expenditionaries arrived in what is present-day Venezuela in 1498, but generally neglated the area because of its apparent lack of mineral wealth
| | <center>| [[Pre-Chavez Economy]] | [[Chavez Economy]] | [[Petroleum Industry]] |</center> |
| *Encomienda is a system where the Spanish crown granted rights over Indian labor and tribute to individual colonists, who in turn undertook to maintain order and to propogate Christianity among the Indians
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| *The Spanish crown officially ended the encomienda system in 1687, and enslaved Africans replaced the majority of Indian labor
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| *This time was dominated by a plantation culture, more closely resembling the systems of the Carribbean Islands than that of a South American territory
| | <center>[[Image:Storia.gif|thumb|Description]]</center> |
| *Colonial authorities organized the local Indians into an encomienda system to grow tobacco, cotten, indigo, and cocoa
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| | <center>[[History of Venezuela]] </center> |
Latest revision as of 16:58, 4 May 2006
