colonial peru

  1. PC: Spanish Peru without Mexico

    The beginnings of New Spain involved an initial bit of luck before disease allowed to steamroll across the Americas. Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Incas was one of the biggest examples of dumb luck in colonial history, but would he have had the same success without Cortez's success to...
  2. Juan Santos Atahualpa expels the Spanish from Peru?

    Juan Santos Atahualpa was a messianic leader who, claiming to be the reincarnation of the last Inca emperor, Atahualpa, led a rebellion against Spanish authorities that lasted ten years, from 1742 to 1752. Although the rebellion was never truly defeated and only ended because of his death, after...
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