The Inka Economy

1. The Inka Economy

2. Economy • An economy consists of the system of the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services within a country or other area – that is, it pertains to the labor, capital and land resources, as well as the actors, or agents, who participate in the production, storage, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services within a given area.

5. Tripartite Division of Resources • State/Inka • Religion/Gods • Hatunruna (Ayllus/Commoners)

6. Ayllus and the Vertical Archipelago

7. Caballitos

8. Coastal Valley Ecology

9. Highland Agriculture

10. Andean Agricultural Sciences

11. Highland irrigation

13. Varieties of Potatoes in one field (chakra)

14. Labor Organization:Reciprocity-Ayni / Minka State Labor -Mit’a

15. Root Crop (Manioc) cultivation in the ceja and Tropical Forest

17. Administrative Centers with Storehouses

18. Collcas - Storehouses

19. Aqllakuna – young women in service to the state (weaving, brewing chicha, etc.)

20. Aqllahuasi at Huánuco Pampa

21. Mitimaes (Mitmaqkuna) • Military • Economic • Religious

22. State Farms - Cochabamba (Huayna Capac)

23. Cochabamba Valley Maize Fields (Huayna Capac)

24. Supplying laborers for state farms in Abancay and Cochabamba

25. Suyus in Cochabamba maize field

26. Artisanal Facilities staffed by mitimaes

27. Miliraya - Textile and Pottery Production Mitimaes for Copacabana Pilgrimage Center, Lake Titicaca Copacabana Pilgrimage Center

28. Collca quipucamayoq

29. Military Recruitment and Organization

30. Census-Taking

31. Provincial Record Keeper

32. Chupachu Labor Assignments (1549)

33. Decimal Administrative Accounting - Khipu