Ploughing up the battlefi eld; Inca warfare, conquest and resilience
Inca warfare has been the subject of scholarly interest since the period of the Spanish conquest. Not only were the land and its peoples exotically diff erent from the Spanish interlopers but so were the many aspects of indigenous warfare. Th ough the indigenous population proved quick to adapt thei...
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| Format: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Language: | eng |
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Sociedad Polaca de Estudios Lationamericanos
2022
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/212221 https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/174832 |
| Summary: | Inca warfare has been the subject of scholarly interest since the period of the Spanish conquest. Not only were the land and its peoples exotically diff erent from the Spanish interlopers but so were the many aspects of indigenous warfare. Th ough the indigenous population proved quick to adapt their methods and strategies to resist these foreign invaders, many of the underlying fundamentals took some time to adjust. Th is paper seeks to uncover both, aspects of the ideological framework which harnessed indigenous Andean strategies and tactics but also to present some of the more practical considerations with respect to territorial expansion, including how native strategy, tactics and beliefs fi rst developed and then adapted to the Spanish presence in the fi rst few decades of the conquest. |
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