<span><span>so merchants could keep track of transactions </span>is closest to being correct, and icabod has it mostly "write". </span>
In the Spanish colonies in America the colonists created a kind of caste system based on ethnic hierarchy which of course put the Spaniards on top. The rest of ethnic groups ranked based on their resemblance of the Spaniards so for example the Indians would be ranked higher than Blacks as they more resembled the Spaniards.
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The Inca worshipped many different gods
They believed the federal government should have power to create and collect taxes.