648. The Fall of the Incas: Battle for the Sacred City (Part 5)

The Incas my ancestors ruled from Chile to Quito, treating their vassals as their own children. They did not steal, and killed only when it served justice. They kept order and reason in the provinces. But now the bearded ones have entered our land they preach one thing and do another they have no fear of God and no shame they treat us like dogs. Their greed is such that there is no temple they have not plundered.

In fact, if all the snow turned to gold and silver it would not satisfy them. They keep our sisters as their concubines, behaving like animals. They want to divide up all the provinces, giving one to each so that they can loot them. Their goal is to see us so downtrodden, so enslaved, that we will be fit only to find them precious metals, and to give them our women. Which Spaniard have we injured?

That they should make such cruel war on us with these horses and weapons of iron? I believe it would not be just or honourable for us to consent to this. So let us strive with all our might to kill these cruel enemies, or die in the attempt. So that was Manco, uh, Emperor of the Incas, addressing a secret gathering of his kinsmen and supporters in Cusco in the autumn of 1535, offering a perspective there on Spanish rule that you have to say, I mean, is not unjustified, perhaps slightly whitewashing the amiability of the Incan regime, but, you know, needs must. And we are three years now

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