
The Inca empire: everything you wanted to know
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Indian Warfare
The spanish arrived just as a civil war was going on between atawalpa anwaskar. They made very good use of other andian people who were willing to join their army. But they didn't realize what they were supporting in some ways, although they certainly realized that the sp Spanish were foreign and different. The final great inca leader wina capak died of smallpox, a european introduced disease. And it's possible that that was actually because the disease was travelling more quickly than the spSpanish themselves were travelling into south America.
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