Question

how did the encomienda system affect indigenous people? it forced them to work as enslaved people. it allowed them to learn the spanish language. it gave them their own property.

Explanation:

The encomienda system was a labor - extraction system in the Spanish colonies. Indigenous people were forced to provide labor to encomenderos (those granted encomiendas). This was a form of forced labor similar to enslavement in practice. While some may have learned Spanish, it was not the main or positive - intentioned outcome of the system. And they were not given their own property as a result of this system.

Answer:

It forced them to work as enslaved people.