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Overall, former mita districts suffer from lower economic performance, as demonstrated by generally lower household consumption and increased rates of stunted growth. Without haciendas to compete with the more exploitative Spanish system, mita districts were subjected to greater economic and health pressures from their labor.
The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and known as Qhapaq Ñan [note 1] meaning "royal road" in Quechua [1]) was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was about 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) long.
The mitma system was effective because instead of trying to invent new governments, they just shuffled about existing ethnic groups. [ 9 ] The Inca kept great tabs on their populace in order to ensure that challenges to their authority did not occur.
Inca road system. Inca administration constructed and renovated very complex ancient networks of roads and bridges, known as Qhapaq Ñan, in order to improve the ability of the Inca to exert imperial authority. Inca engineers improved upon earlier cultures' highways, such as those built by the Chimu, Wari, and Tiwanaku, among others. [6]
The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu, [13] "the suyu of four [parts]". In Quechua, tawa is four and -ntin is a suffix naming a group, so that a tawantin is a quartet, a group of four things taken together, in this case the four suyu ("regions" or "provinces") whose corners met at the capital.
The Inca Empire employed a system of tribute to the Inca government in the form of labor, called Mit'a that required all males between 15-50 to work on large public construction projects. Hyslop comments that the 'secret' to the production of fine Inca masonry “…was the social organization necessary to maintain the great numbers of people ...
With the New Laws of 1542, the repartimiento was instated to substitute the encomienda system that had come to be seen as abusive and promoting of unethical behavior. The Spanish Crown aimed to remove control of the indigenous population, now considered subjects of the Crown, from the hands of the encomenderos, who had become a politically influential and wealthy class, with the shift away ...
Mita or MITA can refer to: Mita (name) Mit'a or mita, a form of public service in the Inca Empire and later in the Viceroyalty of Peru; Mita, Meguro, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan; Mita, Minato, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan; Mita Dōri, a road in Tokyo, Japan; Mita Elementary School, a school in Tokyo, Japan