How did the Inca finance their 23,000 miles of roads and 1,000 storehouses and lodgings that they built for transportation and communication?

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1. As artists gain superstar status, royalty rates generally go down in percentage terms because the absolute amount paid to the superstar rises substantially as unit sales increase. 2. Record labels kept many “house producers” on staff that were assigned to all their recording artists until the 1960s when rock acts broke away by selecting outside independent producers in a bid for greater control over selection of songs. 3. Royalties of featured artists are typically 2 to 5 times higher than the producer. 4. For those who want to start their own independent record labels, the big expenses are in actual recording of albums, while promotion and marketing are not a big financial concern. 5. Recent years have been hard times for traditional recording studios because they are squeezed by both spending cutbacks at economically battered record labels and also increased competition from semi-pro/home recording equipment that delivers decent quality.

All Mexican-Americans are embarrassed by the genre of mariachi music, a genre they view as promoting offensive stereotypes of the Mexican people.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)