
12. The Inca - Cities in the Cloud
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Spanish Insurgency in Peru - A Brief History
The peoples of peru were finally provoked into revolt, took up arms against the spanish. The spaniards never treated them squarely, never honored any of the undertakings they gave but rather set about destroying the entire territory for no good reason and without any justification. And eventually the people decided that they would rather die fighting than put up any longer with what was being done to them. It amounts t one of the first full throated denunciations of the colonial system ever written by one of its subjects. They should be made to refrain from arrogance and brutality towards the indians.
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