The Spanish conquest led to the TaĆno being forced into the encomienda system, paying tribute and providing labor. Enslavement, starvation, and diseases transferred from the Old World to the New World in the Columbian Exchange reduced their population drastically by 1520. Those who survived intermixed with other Indigenous peoples, Africans, and the Spanish in the region.
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