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Feb 28, 2014petehoover98118 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
In the US, we were taught that with 168 men and 70 horses, Pizarro conquered the Incas and destroyed their culture. Of course, that story is quite untrue. Pizarro at best performed a kidnapping and assassination. Atahualpa didn't get to be the most high Inca for long, but his brother who ruled after him Manco Inca, who we never talk about in the US, is the real hero of the story. This book informs the reader a great deal about the world of Manco Inca, and how he decided to organize resistance to the Spanish, and perhaps helped explain why the later Spanish immigrants, who came with visions of gold in their eyes, managed to introduce some of their culture to a pre-formed civilization that in most ways is still actually intact to this day.