Mit'a (Quechua pronunciation: [ˈmɪˌtʼa]) was a system of mandatory labor service in the Inca Empire, as well as in Spain's empire in the Americas. Its...

which households were required to pay tributes, usually in the form of the mit’a corvée labor, and military obligations, though barter (or trueque) was present...

mit’a duties", also performed agricultural, extractive (e.g., mining), and artisanal (e.g., working ceramics and metals) labor for the state. Mit'a was...

control. Systems of forced labor, such as the haciendas and mining industry's mit'a also contributed to the depopulation. After this, enslaved Africans, who...

fractures were typically those who performed heavy physical labor (such as the Mit'a) or served in the Inca military. Animals are also suspected to have been...

In concept, it was similar to other tribute-labor systems, such as the mit'a of the Inca Empire or the corvée of the Ancien Régime de France: Through...

dynasty. The Inca Empire levied tribute labour through a system called Mit'a which was perceived as a public service to the empire. At its height of...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 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...

the sovereignty of the Sapa Inca in its territory. Thanks to the military mit'a, as the empire grew in size and population, so did the army, reaching 200...

labor for the state and has been used in various iterations such as corvée, mit'a and repartimiento. The internment camps of totalitarian regimes such as...

continue in command, and whose people pay tribute in the form of labor (mit'a) and taxes. The Sapa Inca also played a major role in caring for the poor...

Cerro de Potosí, discovered in 1545, the rich, sole source of silver from Peru, worked by compulsory indigenous labor called mit'a....

of forced labor, based on an analogous mit'a system traditional to pre-Hispanic Andean society (though the mit'a directed labor for public works and collective...

communities (ayllu) and was also practiced for the benefit of larger territories (mit'a), as part of the services that each ayllu provided to the whole of the society...

empire were conscripted to maintain and serve in the tambos, as part of the mit'a labor system. Tambos were spaced along Inca roads, generally about one day's...

expanding the forced labor demanded of the Indigenous peoples under the mit'a of the Inca Empire, and executing Túpac Amaru, the last Inca chief of the...

was worked by traditional forced indigenous labor drafts, known as the mit'a. In Mexico, silver was found outside the zone of dense indigenous settlement...

communal effort. In ancient times the effort would have been a form of tax (Mit'a), with participants expected to perform the rebuilding; nowadays the builders...

common uses of coca during the reign of the Inca was in the context of mit'a labor, a labor tax required of all able-bodied men in the Inca empire, and...

Peru, the other discovery that perpetuated the system of forced labor, the mit'a, was the enormously rich single silver mine discovered at Potosí, but in...

reciprocity. Members engage in shared collective labor for outside institutions (mit'a), in reciprocal exchanges of assistance (Quechua: ayni) as well as community...

compounded by the lack of a tradition of forced labor akin to the Inca mit'a among the Mapuche, who largely refused to serve the Spanish. From their...

rule in Peru. Toledo formalized the labor draft of Andean commoners, the mit'a, to guarantee a labor supply for both the silver mine at Potosí and the...

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...

each cable was replaced every year by local villagers as part of their mit'a public service or obligation. In some instances,[citation needed] these...

taken advantage of the pre-existing practice of forced labour under the mit'a of the Inca Empire, and had expanded it. Called "reductions", Toledo's policy...

Hacienda El Cedral (Venezuela) Housing portal Cortijo Fazenda Feudalism Mit'a, a form of tribute to the Inca government in the form of labor, abused by...

obligated, under the mit'a system, to contribute labor to the Empire, rather than being taxed on their wealth or production. The impressed mit'a labor was most...

were known to keep slaves. In the Inca Empire, workers were subject to a Mit'a in lieu of taxes which they paid by working for the government, a form of...

entrance to the mines, in the adits, and on each other. While Quechua: mit'a is glossed as "shift", other sources makes it clear it designates a corvée...