Inca Social classes
Social classes of the Incas
Social organization
The base of the Inca society was the ayllu, a type of clan consists of several extended families, bound together by a certain degree of relationship, living together in a rather restricted and shared the land, animals and their products.
Property and work are collective, and only some very personal goods such as household furnishings, clothes and some utensils, were private.
The ayllus were led by a group leader, the Mallcu, which was advised by a council of elders, the U.S.. Several ayllus constitute one district, headed by an administrator; districts formed a province (Guam); several provinces as one of the four parties (yours) of the rule (Tahuantinsuyo), the head of one of his (apo) was accountable solely to the inca.
For the organization of work and payment of the tax service (mita), the town was divided into groups of ten purics (fully trained men to buy the work), crickets, which were led by a camayoc, ten of these groups (100 men) were guided by a pachaca-curaca, ten groups of 100 men formed the higher-order, under the orders of a curaca, the maximum order of the hierarchy was the group of 10,000 men, a tribe with its chief, honocuraca .
This organization was very effective in meeting half the tax system incaico based on the provision of personal work. This benefit takes the form of work in the fields of the Inca and the priests, but also had to work puric every few days a year in mines, public works (construction of roads, bridges, roads, forts, etc.) such as porters, etc.
There were specialized (potters, weavers, shepherds of llamas), which focused solely on providing public works.
In the event of war, every man was obliged to attend. Only curaca the noble class, was spared the mita.
