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I was first exposed to Anarchism through Le Guin so I guess she holds a special place in my heart, but I noticed their were parallels with the 'Odonism' she sets out in 'The Dispossessed' and the way Inca and wider South American societies distributed labor. Was interested to see that the practice is still used today in some South American communities.
I'd love to learn more about both aspects of this. Are there other contemporary anarchist writers who talk about labor distribution for the modern age? Furthermore, can any south americans here talk on the subject of Minka/Faena? Cheers!
The Inca fight the Spanish from the mountains while the Spanish take the coastal areas. While fighting the Spanish, the Sapainca create a new form of Christianity incorporating Incan beliefs to unite the converted incans into a single force to fight them
#Inca
##Unique Ability
Mit'a
- Citizens may work on Mountain tiles
- Mountain tiles provide +2 Production
- Mountain tiles provide +1 Food for each adjacent Terrace Farm
##Unique Unit
Warak'aq
- Unit type: Recon
- Requires: Machinery tech
- Replaces: Skirmisher
- 165 Production cost (Standard Speed)
- Required resource: none
- 2 Gold Maintenance
- 20 Combat Strength
- 40 Ranged Strength
- 1 Range
- 3 Movement
- Can make an additional attack per turn if movement allows
##Unique Infrastructure
Terrace Farms
#Leader: Pachacuti
##Leader Ability
Qhapaq Ñan
##Leader Infrastructure
Qhapaq Ñan
- Infrastructure type: Improvement
- Requires: Foreign Trade civic
- Allows units to move into and exit through another Qhapaq Ñan within the same Mountain tile range
- Costs 2 Movement to move between Qhapaq Ñan
- Cannot be pillaged or removed
- Can be built by Builders
##Agenda
Sapa Inca
- Tries to settle near Mountain tiles
- Likes civilizations who do not settle near Mountain tiles
- Dislikes civilizations who settle near Mountain tiles
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Day Six - Morning
Yesterday I was pretty surprised when I came home to find two letters under my door. One was considerably most expensive than the other, with even that weird red thing they used to seal letters in the past. The other was mostly just a folder, and was probably delivered manually by the one who sent it.
I looked first into the cheap letter. It had a weird symbol of a circle with arrows or something, a message and also what seemed like a contract. I’ll transcribe it for you guys:
Thank you for your help getting us the Inquisition’s document. As a retribution for all your trouble in achieving this task, we are giving you 5500 Bolivianos and a invitation to join our organization as a C Class due to your experience with security. If you are interested, go to Santa Cruz la Vieja after your 10-day Contract in the Samaipata Ruins is finished and go to the following address (Sorry, I won’t put the address here for security reasons) Ask to talk to Professor Arnaldo Celeste.
The expensive one had a symbol of a anthropo-zoomorphic head on it’s seal. I opened it, it was written in what seemed pen and a smelly red ink.
“We can can work together to bring her back. Meet me in the Pit. Don’t tell Hector or I’ll come after you. Check your broken mailbox.”
Well, that letter was certainly scary, but I couldn’t help myself. I opened the broken mailbox. In the middle of it’s dust lied a photo, that seemed to have been taken by a Polaroid. It was the photo of a abandoned school bus in the side of a road.
Even with me being tired as hell, I couldn’t sleep that night. I didn’t want to share very personal details before, but now it’s unavoidable. Whatever lives up in that mountain is now toying with me, using my past to torment me.
In the year of, if I remember correctly, 2006, I moved from Paraguay to Bolivia with my wife. We had to leave Paraguay due to safety reasons. Her grandfather was a Secret Police officer and torturer from the Stroessner dictatorship in the 70’s and 80’s. When this was revealed, in 2004, all members of her family started being harassed by the press and later by the EPP, a socialist guerrilla from Paraguay. We married in 2003, so I started being harassed too.
In early 2006, they shoot her parents. Her mother suffered stomach and lung perforations, if her stomach fluid didn’t leak out of her body, she’d be dead. Her father wasn’t as lucky. Three bullets, one in the neck, one in the shoulder and one in the brain. He’s still in th
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I arrived at work at 14:10, a bit after the start of my shift at 10 o’clock, but by that point I didn’t care. It was raining, so we had far less tourists than common. Well, actually, we had uncommon tourists. There was a group of man with fedora hats, sunglasses and black suits collecting things from the Supervisor’s Cabin and talking to Hector. He had a different uniform this day.
“Hey, what’s going on?” I said, as I noticed those people were installing cameras all over the place.
“Your level of clearance is not high enough for me to explain, Javier.”
“...”
“Just kidding, we are installing cameras because the paranormal activity has increased significantly in the last week. Probably all-time highest. If it gets worse we’re probably going to close the dangerous areas of the site.”
“Hector, what’s with that suit?”
“I was promoted. I’m your supervisor now.”
“What happened to... Oh, shit...”
“Yeah. It sometimes happen in our line of business. I’m used to it. Javier, when the men in black are gone, come to my office. I need your help with something again.” He said. I tried to say something too, but he was called by one of the men in black and entered his office.
Three hours later, the suited people left. I entered Hector’s office a bit nervous. Last time I did what he wanted I had a lot of trouble with the night inhabitants. He was sitting at his desk, with a joint in his mouth and looking into some files. All of them had that weird symbol of a circle and arrows I’d seen earlier. Some of them were clearly curriculums, marked with the words “VERIFIED” below the concurrent’s photo.
“Why didn’t you come to work yesterday, Javier?” He said, with smoke coming out of his mouth.
“I...” I didn’t realize I didn’t work the previous day. I spent all day rescuing my wife from that freak and then taking her to Supay.
“Why the police found all the people in the bus but your wife?”
“I don’t know...”
“I know you denounced the killer and ran over his legs, Javier. I know you took your wife with you. I honestly don’t care where you took her. I just need to know one thing. How the fuck did you got to know she was there?” He finished his joint. “The demon is doing all of this, right? Don’t believe him. He’s lying to you. But it’s too dangerous for me to say anything more here.”
“Can we talk inside the Safe Room? Or outside the ruins?”
“Ok. At the shift’s end, meet me in the cafeteria. Same from last time, at the city. Don’t talk to anyone about this and do
... keep reading on reddit ➡I recently learned (just a tad) about the siege of Cusco during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. To my knowledge, the events followed as such: Manco, the Inca emperor who decided to rebel against the Spanish, assembled 100,000 to 200,000 Inca warriors to storm the city of Cusco and defeat, at least partially, the Spanish conquistadors. They quickly took all of the city minus two buildings in the main square to which the conquistadors had retreated to. This battle then turned into a siege that lasted for 10 months.
My question is how is that possible? How did (taking the low number) 100,000 warriors, even if poorly equipped comparatively, not have the ability to storm these two buildings and kill 190 conquistadors? I would imagine that the two buildings would have been completely surrounded so that supply lines were cut off from the conquistadors. Where did they get food and water from to survive for so long? The level of knowledge that I have about this event just doesn't seem to add up and I feel like there must be something that I'm missing.
Day Six/ Afternoon
I arrived at the address nervous as hell. I drank so much coffee I don’t even remember half of the way. I’m also pretty sure I got fined two or three times for exceeding the speed limit and I may have ran over a cyclist, but I’m not sure. Yeah, I know I probably committed some crimes, but by that point I didn’t care, I just needed to see my wife.
The place mentioned in the message was a arid and extremely isolated place, in a side road of a side road. My car is not a 4X4, and I had a hard time driving there, but I did it. It was arid, but not a desert, it still had some trees. Two or three hundred meters into the “forest” there was a seemingly abandoned barn. Oh, how the place was hot. Almost 40° Celsius.
When I reached the barn, after a five or six minute walk, I found it’s doors open. The place was dark, and the light buttons near the entrance didn’t work. I used a cheap flashlight I bought along the way. There were dozens of cars abandoned in there, including a school bus. The school bus my wife was in when she disappeared. I entered it as fast as I could, but it was empty, and full of bugs and dust.
And then I heard it. Screaming. Kids screaming. I wish they were ghosts like previous times. But sadly, they weren’t. I followed the sound, and found a stair leading to the underground. I’d usually try to spare you from the gruesome details, but this time I can’t. So if you can’t handle gory stuff, be careful with this chapter.
There were at least a hundred people down there. Most of them had their legs and arms cut, some of them were clearly dead and decomposing, and some of them were alive, but couldn’t move. The absolute majority of these people had pieces of their skin missing, and some of them had also no eyes or ears or noses. Some people were hanging from the ceiling, they had hooks on their shoulders, no eyes, their mouths and ears were sewn, their arms and legs cut, no hair, and all their genitalia was also removed. The only thing showing me they were alive was their breathing.
“Purified, is that you? Will you kill me already?” A eyeless kid with no legs or scalp asked me, crawling with their arms. I couldn’t tell if they was male or female.
“What the fuck is happening here?!” I shouted, I couldn’t hold myself anymore. And then I looked to the ceiling above me. There she was. My wife.
“Be careful!” A man with no legs in the corner of the room shouted. I looked around, and saw a man wearing a doctor’s coat and a mask
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I've just started reading this book, and this claim jumped out at me.
On page 71 of the paperback edition of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus he claims that 'In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great's expanding Russia' [he goes on listing other large empires it is bigger than].
Yet wikipedia has Ming China at ~6.5 million km^2 and the Incas at ~2 million km^2
Looking at the maps of both his claim seems completely unreasonable. He has a map of the Inca empire on page 72 but the scale seems off by perhaps 50%.
Is this book reliable? If so how can this claim be justified?
Thanks
Edit: A few pages later he makes a similar claim: 'In terms of area conquered in one lifetime, he [Thupa Inca] was in the league of Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan'. Yet according to Wikipedia again, Alexander's empire was around 5,200,000km^2 and at the time of Genghis Khan's death the Mongol Empire was a staggering 13,500,000km^2. Thupa Inca seems to have conquered somewhat more than half the Inca's total territory, lets say 1,500,000km^2. The numbers do not compare.
The Quarry Trail may not be the 4 Day Inca Trail, but it’s still and Inca Trail. You pass through many important archaeological sites along the way, including Choquequilla, the Community of Socma, Perolniyoc cascade lookout, Q’orimarca archaeological site, the archaeological site of Inti Punku (Sun Gate), and Kachicqata quarry. Inca Quarry Trail is a 17.9 mile lightly trafficked point-to-point trail located near Ollantaytambo, Cusco,
Choquequilla - it is a site in the Huarocondo gorge, about 3km from Pachar village. The site is also called Ñaupa Iglesia - rarely visited, and very mystical.
Socma - a village up the same valley. There is a waterfall next to it. This will be great in the rainy season (more water for the waterfall).
Corimarca - some Inca ruins above the waterfall, up the mountain ridge near Socma
Inti Punku - some small ruins, on top of the ridge that runs west of the Huarocondo gorge, towards the quarries. If you're lucky, you will get views of snow peaks. This is not the "inti punku" that appears on the Inca trail, but a different place with the same name.
Cachicata - descending from that hill, you get to the quarries that are on the opposite site of the valley near Ollantaytambo.
Trekkers on the Inca Trail aren’t allowed to start the last leg of the trail until 5.30am; this last stretch takes between 2-2.5 hours, so most groups arrive at Machu Picchu by 8am. Not so if you go with the Quarry Trail option. Instead, hikers wake up early (after a comfortable night’s sleep), line up for the first bus out of Aguas Calientes (which departs at 5.30am), and arrive at the ancient site at 6am – win! This gives you plenty of time to hike up to the Sun Gate to get those iconic snaps of Machu Picchu as the sun rises.
[Machu Picchu Hike](https://previ
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