USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mit’a was effectively a form of tribute to the Inca government in the form of labor, i.e. a corvée. Tax labor accounted for much of the Inca state tax revenue; beyond that, it was used for the construction of the road network, bridges, agricultural terraces, and fortifications in ancient Peru.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. 3; Tandeter 1983, p.

Detailed explanation-3: -Why was the mita paid with labor? There was no money, so people paid taxes with labor. How did the Incas grow crops in the Andes? They farmed lands along rivers and also hillsides by cutting terraces, or strips of level land that are planted with crops.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -repartimiento, (Spanish: “partition, ” “distribution”) also called mita, or cuatequil, in colonial Spanish America, a system by which the crown allowed certain colonists to recruit indigenous peoples for forced labour.