Sentences with 'mita'
Example sentences and phrases with the word mita and other words derived from it.
• « Imposing a system of forced labour known as the mita, Spanish officials forced thousands of the region's native inhabitants to work in atrocious conditions, often to death from exhaustion. »
• « With regard to the Indians, it was ordered that all forms of service or personal tribute, such as mita and yanaconazgo, be abolished. »
• « Each peasant also worked for the Inca ruler a number of days a month on public works projects, a requirement known as the mita. »