Practice question · Multiple choice
How did the Inca economy work without money or markets?
Hints
- The state took work, not coins.
- Storehouses, not shops.
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C. On labour tax and state storehouses
Why
Subjects owed labour, not cash; the state stored and redistributed the product. An economy of obligation and storehouses ran a continental empire, proof that "market plus money" is one solution to distribution, not the only one.
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