Conquest Of The Americas - Mister Dans Home Page
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YANACONA<br />
A special class of people outside of the normal hierarchy but<br />
still subject to the nobility was the yanacona.<br />
It is not inappropriate to describe them as servants, but they<br />
were not ordinary servants. In fact, becoming a yanacona<br />
was one of the very few paths to upward mobility in the Incas<br />
Empire.<br />
As a class, they owed their loyalty to and received their support<br />
from individual nobles or emperors and sometimes were<br />
attached to institutions such as temples or royal estates.<br />
Yanacona severed all ties to their home communities.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y also received the privileges of exemption from taxes and<br />
the authority of their native curaca, and their children could<br />
inherit yanacona status.