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Diplomatic ties with local peoples, including subordinated mitmas and yanakona, were a critical asset for the Spanish.
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“And secondly,”
“critically,”
“the asset through diplomacy of the local peoples,”
“the subordinated mitmas, they were called,”
“or yanakona,”
“serfs, the defeated and subordinated people of the Inca bought forcibly within their imperial structure,”38:58Report a misattribution
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