Read the excerpt and answer the question below. "Into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts . . . killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples, doing all this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.”
-Source: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, 1542.
Which of the following practices did the ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenge?
Choose 1
Choose 1

(Choice A)
A
enslaving indigenous people as laborers in the encomienda system

(Choice B)
B
mixed-race relationships between Spaniards and indigenous people

(Choice C)
C
taking indigenous land for colonization by creating unfair treaties

(Choice D)
D
converting indigenous people to Christianity through missionary work