The cut [edit]. Although American butchers may label a cut of meat London broil, the term does not refer to a specific cut of meat but to a method of preparation and cookery. Butchers may label top round steak or roast as London broil.
Encomienda: Spanish Slavery in the New World. The Encomienda System was established in response to the colonists' need for Indian labour, but became the most destructive system in the history of Spanish America. When the Spanish arrived in the New World, they brought with them a set of customs and traditions from their old Spain. One of the systems that were commonly practiced in Western Europe was forced labour. In Spain, this was knownas the Encomienda system.
But in pushing for extended power in the colonies, they had overstepped their bounds with the Spanish king, who viewed this as an effort to take the Spanish Crown's power in the New World. Without warning in 1542, he issued the New Laws, which were calculated to destroy the encomienda system within a generation.