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Wasn't the Incan empire highly organized?

• tivert 3y ago
  > Wasn't the Incan empire highly organized? And also pretty totalitarian. IIRC, to the point of resettling and mixing communities to discourage rebellion. But I could also see that as a reaction to potato farming being "harder to make legible to the state."
  • roughly 3y ago
    So was Tsarist Russia and Maoist China, so I’m not super sold on the grain->government pipeline in any direction
• dghlsakjg 3y ago
  They grew corn in addition to potato’s, I believe.
  • graindrain1960 3y ago
    They also had quinoa, amaranth, peanuts, sweet potatoes, chilis and plenty of other stuff. They had quite a colorful cuisine.