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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.
— May 11, 2026 09:27PM
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Jim
is on page 422 of 522
[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.
— May 13, 2026 09:45PM
Jim
is on page 279 of 522
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.
— May 12, 2026 10:50PM
