GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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work in silver mines
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study for 10 hours for their AP test
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allow themselves to be sacrificed
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ride on llamas
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Detailed explanation-1: -The mita was a forced labor system designed by Toledo to allocate indigenous labor to mines and refineries. Specifically, 16 provinces of modern-day Peru and Bolivia (over 200 indigenous districts) were chosen to provide one-seventh of their male labor force each year (Cole 1985, p.
Detailed explanation-2: -Specifically, I examine the long-run impacts of the mining mita, a forced labor system instituted by the Spanish government in Peru and Bolivia in 1573 and abolished in 1812.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mita, a colonial Andean system of rotating forced Indian labor assigned by the state to designated beneficiaries. The Spanish conquerors derived the mita from the Quechuan mit’a, whereby Andean society made temporary assignments of workers for community projects.