Polo y servicio, or more accurately termed the Repartimiento, also known as the prestación personal, was the corvée system with compensation imposed upon the local population in the Spanish East Indies and Spanish America during the Spanish colonial period. The word polo refers to community work, and the laborer was called polista.
Polo y servicio, or more accurately termed the Repartimiento, also known as the prestación personal, was the corvée system with compensation imposed upon the local population in the Spanish East Indies and Spanish America during the Spanish colonial period. The word polo refers to community work, and the laborer was called polista.
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