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The Incas and Spanish Conquest
- An Enthralling Overview of the Inca Empire, Conquistadors, and Conquests in the Americas (Exploring the Past)
- Narrated by: Jay Herbert
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Two manuscripts in one book:
- The Inca Empire: An Enthralling Overview of the Incas, Their Civilization in Ancient Peru, and the Spanish Conquest
- The Spanish Conquest of the Americas: An Enthralling Overview of the Conquistadors and Their Conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires
In the first part of this book, you will discover:
- How the Inca civilization developed out of a number of preceding cultures in the Andes and Peruvian coast;
- How quickly the Incas were able to expand and why they needed to;
- How the empire was administered and how runners were able to take messages from one end of it to the other with remarkable speed;
- The amazing Inca infrastructure program, which included building roads through mountain ranges and across raging rivers;
- Why Inca cuisine included tasty guinea pigs and llama jerky;
- Why there were never more than a few thousand actual Inca in the Inca Empire;
In the second part of this book, you will learn about:
- Columbus and his expeditions, which encouraged other Europeans to start colonization
- The makeup of indigenous American societies, from their social hierarchies and complex cultures to diverse political structures
- Colonization of the Caribbean islands and the establishment of the Spanish West Indies
- The arrival of Hernán Cortés and his groundbreaking expedition into the Aztec Empire in modern-day Mexico
- The conquest of the Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula and the power dynamics between different power-hungry conquistador groups there
- The magnificent Inca Empire in the South American Andes and its conquest by Francisco Pizarro
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