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Inca culture at the time of the Spanish conquestessay 1946 • Rowe, John Howland
Inka • South America > Central Andes
This article from the Handbook of South American Indians is a systematic account of the Inka culture as it is possible to be reconstructed from archaeological remains and contemporary written records. There is information on population, tribal distri...Inca policies and institutions relating to the cultural unification of the empireessay 1982 • Rowe, John Howland
Inka • South America > Central Andes
John Rowe shows how Inka policies devised to prevent revolt unified the state more comprehensively than the architects of those policies realized. YANACONA, CAMAYO, and MITIMA statuses, which were all initially created to expropriate labor for the st...