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To: Sherman Logan
The Maya were well past their sell-by date by the time the Spanish showed up, so their economic systems had to be inferred.

Not anymore, based on the techniques cited in the brief article.

And who is to say that the Inca didn't have a similar system prior to their decline into what they were when Pizzaro and his men showed up? Perhaps even their earlier history was rewritten, much like our elite are doing with ours.

4 posted on 12/27/2013 11:45:33 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

The early Spanish writers had no incentive to invent unusual economic systems for the Inca. It is in fact very easy to see how confused they were by what they were seeing. It’s clear they didn’t understand the system, but it is most especially clear that it bore zero relationship to the more or less free market economies they were used to.

OTOH, the Inca themselves were newcomers, having conquered most of western S. America and imposed their totalitarian system in considerably less than a century. The Spanish showed up just as they reached their apogee.

The preceding cultures might very well have had a more market-based economy.


8 posted on 12/27/2013 1:27:52 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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