Which one of the following is true of agriculture in spanish america? the main crops were vastly different than they had been before spain’s arrival. spain did not do any farming in its empire. catholic priests were forbidden to be involved in farming. american indian slaves did the work on large-scale farms.

American Indian slaves did the work on large-scale farms.

Explanation:

Agriculture was the main economic activity and the basis of colonial wealth, both for the income generated and for the occupied population. In the early years of the conquest, most agricultural production followed indigenous techniques and organizational criteria. It was a varied activity, with great regional diversity and that mobilized broad social sectors. That is why it is necessary to differentiate local production from the products brought by the Europeans: grapevine, cereals, olive tree, indigo or sugar. Among the American products were the crops destined to satisfy the indigenous food needs (corn, potato, beans, etc.) and those other species whose stimulating power gave them a concrete function in the colonial system: coca, yerba mate or magüey (pulque), condemned as "vices" by the church and other social sectors, a category shared with tobacco. There were other successful American products, such as cacao, in southern Mexico and Central America, or the grana-cochinilla, a dye exploited by the indigenous communities of Oaxaca (Mexico), but not in the Spanish haciendas. The first purely Spanish agrarian enterprise was sugar production, which began to stand out in Santo Domingo in 1515 and had to be carried out with African slaves due to the disappearance of the local labor force.

Sources: 1- https://mihistoriauniversal.com/edad-moderna/agricultura-america-colonial/

2 -CAPUTO, Marina, “La configuración del sistema colonial hispanoamericano: economía, sociedad y política”, Ficha de cátedra, 2016.

3-*SERRERA, Raúl, “Sociedad estamental y sistema colonial”, en ANNINO, Antonio,CASTRO LEIVA, Luis y GUERRA, François-Xavier, De los imperios a las naciones iberoamericanas, Zaragoza, Iber-Caja, 1994, pp. 45-74.-

2018 means 2018 ce or common era

there have been other eras too including bce, which included way more years.