You are a priest who observes the working conditions that are sometimes native peoples of the region in the fields of the Cerro de Potosí. to an important authority in Spain describing the operation of this system forced labor. In it, you must include: - The following concepts: mining- inaica (or Andean) mita - Spain mita (or potosina) - huayras- amalgam - Describe the working conditions of indigenous people.
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Mit'a (Quechua pronunciation: [ˈmɪˌtʼa])[1][2] was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire. Its close relative, the regionally mandatory Minka is still in use in Quechua communities today and known as faena in Spanish. Mit'a was used for the construction of roads, bridges, agricultural terraces, and fortifications in ancient Peru.
Historians use the hispanicized term mita to differentiate the system as it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system.
Mit'a was effectively a form of tribute to the Inca government in the form of labor, i.e. a corvée. In the Incan Empire, public service was required in community-driven projects such as the building of their extensive road network. Military service was also mandatory.
All citizens who could perform labor were required to do so for a set number of days out of a year (the basic meaning of the word mit'a is a regular turn or a season). The Inca Empire's wealth would cause a family often to require only sixty-five days to farm; the rest of the year was devoted entirely to the mit'a. A relative of the Mit'a (federal work) is the modern Quechua system of Mink'a (communal work) or faena, which is mostly applied at small-scale villages. The Mink'a was adopted during the 1960s on large-scale federal projects of Peru.