In pre$-$Colquibian Peru when the ruler of the Incas conquered a tribe the

palace administrators $($civil servants$)$ followed the army and assessed the

tax each village had to pay. The tax assessed was in feathers, corn, silver,

livestock, whatever the villagers produced. It is recorded that one village

was so poor that the inhabitants had nothing that could be taxed so the

administrators assessed the village on a stated number of quiverfuls of

lice. ${?}^{36}$ Write a short paragraph on the taxation principle that those Inca

administrators were implementing by the extermination of lice in this

way.