Status Updates From The Last Days Of The Incas

Such a fascinating historical read - gave me SO much information to then ask better questions on tours. The history of Peru is complex and fascinating with an incredible amount of unanswered question. More than just history, this is also the story of men with an obsession of conquest and being remembered, from Inca emperors to Spanish conquerors to modern day explorers.

[Titu Cusi and Manco Inca had resisted] only after the Spaniards had attacked and occupied Tawantinsuyu [what the Inca called their empire], which, from the Incas' point of view, the Spaniards had no right to rule.

With the collapse of the Spanish-Inca military alliance, however, Pizarro and his fellow Spaniards were now exposed for what they really were: a relatively tiny group of increasingly desperate foreign invaders.

According to the logic of sixteenth-century Spanish jurisprudence, by refusing to submit to the Spaniards and by throwing to the ground a black object with fine squiggles [a breviary] on its leaves that he had no way of understanding, Atahualpa had immediately forfeited his rights to the Inca empire.