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Historia general del Perú: Comentarios reales de los incas (Spanish Edition)
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The Conquest of the Incas, by John Hemming. The definitive history of Francisco Pizarro’s occupation of Peru, and the starting point for any serious examination of Inca history.
Mark Adams • Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Today one speaks of “the Incas,” but the name Inca actually referred only to the emperor and his empire. Ethnically, the people of Cuzco were Quechua speakers, and they, too, drew on a long history of previous cultural evolution in the Andes.
John Charles Chasteen • Born in Blood and Fire
In the Inca lands, wrote Pedro de Cieza de Léon, law and order were carefully maintained, with great care taken “to see that justice was meted out and that nobody ventured to commit a felony or theft.”64 Data was collected annually across the Inca Empire to make sure taxes were calculated correctly and fairly paid, with births and deaths recorded c
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John Hemming • The Conquest of the Incas
