> More likely, the Incan slave/poor populace was split and easily co-opted by the Spaniards. Why is this either/or? The above statement is undoubtedly true, but that doesn't mean what I said is false. The problem, is,…
"Incan society" is a bit of a misnomer. "Inca" refers to either the ethnic group, or the ruler of the empire (so "Manco Inca" is roughly "King Inca"). About 100 years before contact with the Spanish, the Inca defeated…
It was a siege of a well-fortified town, and the Spanish had non-negligible support from non-Incan people unsatisfied with the Incan rule. That said, a Spaniard on a thousand pound horse, wrapped in steel, on an open,…
> More likely, the Incan slave/poor populace was split and easily co-opted by the Spaniards. Why is this either/or? The above statement is undoubtedly true, but that doesn't mean what I said is false. The problem, is,…
"Incan society" is a bit of a misnomer. "Inca" refers to either the ethnic group, or the ruler of the empire (so "Manco Inca" is roughly "King Inca"). About 100 years before contact with the Spanish, the Inca defeated…
It was a siege of a well-fortified town, and the Spanish had non-negligible support from non-Incan people unsatisfied with the Incan rule. That said, a Spaniard on a thousand pound horse, wrapped in steel, on an open,…