They were a nomadic group who moved from place to place depending on where they could find food, and were described by the Spanish as moving “like animals”. The Spanish considered the first group to be the wildest and most barbaric since they had no lords, kings, or areas of permanent residence. They also wore no form of clothing, causing some of these wandering groups of Incas to be entirely leaderless, working instead as a unit of equals making decisions collectively. While the Spanish considered this primitive, it could be argued that this simple mode of government was a crude form of democracy and was much more effective than the Spanish realized. Other groups of these wandering tribes were family units, and although they also had communal government, they submitted to the one member of the family who was either the eldest or the one considered most capable. These examples of community government were not savage as the Spanish thought, but rather a form of government different from the monarchies of the time.