04 1 / 2012

"The secret of the Inca’s great wealth may have been their unusual tax system. Instead of paying taxes in money, every Incan was required to provide labor to the state. In exchange for this labor, they were given the necessities of life."

Cool article about how the Inca’s build a huge empire without having any system of commerce. 

The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy