Talk:Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire

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	The following comments have been left for this page: Holocaust? The statement 'But these native people never foresaw the massive waves of Spaniard imigrants coming to their land and the holocaust that they would bring upon their people' under 'Rebellion and reconquest' seems fairly contentious and disputable Drobba (talk) 14:40, 28 December 2007 (UTC) (edit)
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[edit] Cleanup

I have broken this page off from Inca Empire. The original text on that page has been left intact until this article has been sufficiently expanded.

I deleted some excess text ("rim me"?) and aligned the quote to the left. It looks much classier now. :) -Rich

This article should be rewritten by a native English speaker. It is phrased very oddly in parts ("But the conqueror’s abuses made this fiction disappeared", etc).Gsd97jks 20:13, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I tried to clean it up, but may be not up to your standards. Anyway, in a linguistical point of view, it seems pretty accurate to me.InternetHero 02:18, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup needed

paragraphs 4 and 5 under the rebellion (section 4) are redundant. They need to be consolidated, and some mention needs to be made of the Inca Victory at Ollantaytambo before the final retreat to vilcabamba. (I don't have enough info, though) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.89.184 (talk) 19:22, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] obsolete?

Is not this story considered obsolete spanish revisionist history? I thought it was fairly well known at this point that the spanish themselves did very little fighting and that most battles were native/native. Spanish allies verus inca. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.203.203.70 (talk) 04:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

You are correct. The article is based on the Spanish records which were largely propaganda. For example recent research has found that rather than the account in the article of capturing Atahualpa what actually occured was the Spanish arrived during an Inca celebration and found the Incas unarmed. They took advanatage and attacked. There is also the recent discovery of a transcript from a Spanish court case that has first hand indian accounts that indicate the Spanish fought in small groups surrounded by hundreds of Inca allies for protection. Spanish sources say the Inca army numbered in the tens of thousands but Indian sources say several thousands. There were never any battles as we know them but many scattered skirmishes against a greatly outnumbered Inca army trying to run away. A recent find of the bodies of Incas killed in the seige of Lima show that only around 3% have wounds consistant with metal weapons while the wounds of the rest matched stone clubs. Experts speculate that mention of the indian role in the conquest was avoided because the (non Inca) Indians were offered treaties for their help against the Incas that were never honoured. Wayne (talk) 03:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)