On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > Pizzarro's brother Gonzalo did try - and defeated and killed a viceroy that > the king sent to replace him.
Rebellion to form a feudal state is some thing else - we are talking in hypotheticals here - the reality is the monarchy prevailed - however I can imagine a scenario where better educated leaders with access to resources of a state 9 times the size of Spain could have worked to gain the support of the locals, the mulattoes, the criollos, the mestizos and other mixed peoples and establish a state where democratic freedom of the self was the rule. Of course they didn't - and there ends the matter. There's a lot of speculative intellectual debate among the Latin American literati on this topic - it's a favorite conversation topic in fact - could have, should have, would have territory - when I have the time I'll try do dig it up - my spanish isn't very good, and I'll have to rely on google translate quite a bit to get at it again. The Napoleonic wars and all the related stuff you mention is unfortunately far too late to be of relevance.
