The Incas had shitty weapons and no clue to fight men on horses

Cougar Face

   The long decline and fall of the Inca empire was a brutal event for Native Americans and the story of how Francisco Pizarro lead a hundred and sixty seven man army to capture their emperor and change the history of Peru has be told many times. The wealth the Spanish stole after conquering Cuzco and brave Indian residence in the decades following this tragedy in 1533 is told in a book called "The Last Days Of The Incas" by author Kim Macquarrie. The brutal capture and execution of the last independent Inca emperor Atahualpa is written in an excellent chronically along with the residence of his descendants as a deadly thirty six war that had modern guerrilla tactics used for the first time pt a hold on Spanish expansion that wold eventually overwhelm modern day Peru and several South American countries.

Author MacQuarrie has lived in Peru and used his knowledge and interest in literature from this time period to vividly describe this struggle between two empires where after the smoke cleared only one would remain. Basically the Spanish were able to destroy armies that outnumbered them because they had great  weapons and horses while the Incas were poorly outfitted with clubs and slingshot weapons that were commonly  used in this region for centuries. There were numerous Indians that served the Spanish well helping them navigate the extremely difficult terrain and go after hidden Inca cities ay up in the mountains or the jungles of the Andes. Some Spanish settlers became fabulously wealthy from the gold and silver the Spanish constantly harassed and forced the Incas to hand over to them under threat of death.

 This book details what drew so many men from the low classes of Spain as they were able to get rich overnight in this version of a good rush where and labor was to needed but was the horses,armor, and sharp swords. The ecncomenderous would soon set up a caste system that was allowed for hundreds of years before the natives finally overthrew the Spanish yoke and gained independence. Peru now is an Amerindian nation whose government serves all the people and the  harrowing tragedy of Spanish colonialism is a bitter element of this country's history retold in this excellent book