ayllu
Americannoun
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ayllus
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among the Incas, a kin-based group forming the basic social unit.
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among present-day Indigenous Andean peoples, a community of families sharing land and organized under shared leadership, in some cases recognized as a political or administrative unit.
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The Inca incorporated the ayllu structure into a governing system based on the decimal system.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The ayllu, or extended family group, undertook tasks too big for a single family.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The ayllu also stored food and other supplies to distribute among members during hard times.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Thus died Manco Ccapac, according to the accounts of those of his ayllu or lineage, at the age of 144 years, which were divided in the following manner.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
There are some of this ayllu living, the chiefs being Don Alonso Puscon and Don Diego Quispi.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
I say that all these ayllus have preserved their records in such a way that the memory of them has not been lost.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
One hundred, representing one of the four ayllus, faced towards each cardinal point and subsequently ran at full speed in its direction, crying “Go forth all evils!”
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
The Alcabisas and Culunchimas assembled their forces and Mayta Ccapac marshalled his ayllus.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
He added nothing to what his father had subjugated, only holding by his ayllus those whom his father had crushed.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
Forgetting their former treason, he sent the child to its grandfather Soma Inca with forty orejones of the ayllus of Cuzco as his guard.
From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
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