Legacy of the Inca Empire

Question 1

What was the most unique feature of the Inca Empire

Answer 1

the way they organized labor without their empire

Question 2

What was the Mit’a system?

Answer 2

a state-run program that organized the Inca and their conquered people into specific labor forces

Question 3

What was the Mit’a system used for?

Answer 3

to construct roads, temples, bridges, fortifications and agricultural terraces

Question 4

What did the government administrate

Answer 4

held and distributed supplies (both materials and food stuffs) in state-run warehouses

Question 5

What did the Mit’a system consume

Answer 5

the majority of the year’s labor, with breaks to maintain agriculture

Question 6

What was the Mit’a system popularized as

Answer 6

the first successful large-scale socialist practices

Question 7

What was the Mit’a system regarded by, by historians

Answer 7

one of the primary reasons why the Spanish were so easily able to muster American Indian support against the imperial Inca Empire