“While Spain is a relatively minor European power today, in the 16th and 17th centuries it was a major Atlantic world power with the biggest colonial empire in that part of the world. Spain achieved this status by using its overwhelming military power to conquer the Aztec and Incan empires, to force native Americans into subservience with the encomienda system, and then succeeded (into the late 1600s) with the mita labour system, to subjugate and harness Native American labour to the needs of the colonial state.” Critique this quotation.