Your Life at Every Rank of the Inca Empire

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Discover how the Inca Empire organized society from household heads to the Sapa Inca. In this video, we climb the ranks of the Inca Empire and see what life was like at each level, from paying taxes in time to governing the four quarters. Chapters: 00:00 Taxes paid in time 00:12 Three questions 00:24 What they did without 00:36 The group, not the person 00:48 Rank 1: the household head 01:00 The mit'a 01:12 Not slavery, and not optional 01:24 Rank 2: the decimal ladder 01:36 The numbers were real 01:48 Rank 3: keeper of the knots 02:00 We cannot read all of it 02:12 Rank 4: the governor 02:24 The storehouses 02:36 The relay 02:48 Rank 5: the four quarters 03:00 Rank 6: the Sapa Inca 03:12 Off the ladder: the retainers 03:24 The chosen women 03:36 What they made 03:48 What happened next 04:00 The mountain shrines 04:12 The last year, month by month 04:24 Whole villages moved 04:36 How you rose 04:48 He inherits the office, not the estate 05:00 The dead kept their estates 05:12 Expansion was payroll 05:24 The war 05:36 Months on the throne 05:48 They captured one man 06:00 Forty more years 06:12 They kept the machine 06:24 The flaw was a rule

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Taxes paid in time
Taxes paid in time
Your Life at Every Rank of the Inca Empire
Three questions
Three questions
What they did without
What they did without
The group, not the person
The group, not the person
Rank 1: the household head
Rank 1: the household head
The mit'a
The mit'a
Not slavery, and not optional
Not slavery, and not optional
Rank 2: the decimal ladder
Rank 2: the decimal ladder
The numbers were real
The numbers were real
Rank 3: keeper of the knots
Rank 3: keeper of the knots
We cannot read all of it
We cannot read all of it

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