On Apr 21, 2010, at 12:25 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
The fact that those resentments existed and that the Inca elite couldn't handle them suggests that their empire was suffering from some internal weakness even before the Spaniards arrived.
The historical fact is that Pizarro and his gang arrived immediately after the end of a civil war that had left the winning side (Atahualpa) exhausted and unable to react militarily to the massacre and kidnapping in Cuzco. There is a nearly exact European parallel-- the battle of Hastings and unresisted Norman conquest of all England.
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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