12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Inca Empire and Its People
The hierarchy of this society was rigidly enforced, and peasants had little independence or power. The authorities even conducted inspections of people's homes to ensure that commoners did not own any gold or silver. This entire system of organized labor scentrally planned from cuzco operated without a single word ever being written down. But events were already brewing in the wider world that would soon bring them into contact with powers far outside their past experience. And which would ultimately lead to the wholesale collapse and disintegration of their entire society.
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