The Incas and Spanish Conquest

audiobook (Unabridged) ∣ An Enthralling Overview of the Inca Empire, Conquistadors, and Conquests in the Americas

By Billy Wellman

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audiobook

Edition

Unabridged

Author

Billy Wellman

Narrator

Jay Herbert

Publisher

Billy Wellman

Release

08 August 2023

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Education History Nonfiction
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Two manuscripts in one book:

  • The Inca Empire: An Enthralling Overview of the Incas, Their Civilization in Ancient Peru, and the Spanish Conquest
  • The Spanish Conquest of the Americas: An Enthralling Overview of the Conquistadors and Their Conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires

    • In the first part of this book, you will discover:

  • How the Inca civilization developed out of a number of preceding cultures in the Andes and Peruvian coast;
  • How quickly the Incas were able to expand and why they needed to;
  • How the empire was administered and how runners were able to take messages from one end of it to the other with remarkable speed;
  • The amazing Inca infrastructure program, which included building roads through mountain ranges and across raging rivers;
  • Why Inca cuisine included tasty guinea pigs and llama jerky;
  • Why there were never more than a few thousand actual Inca in the Inca Empire;

    • In the second part of this book, you will learn about:

  • Columbus and his expeditions, which encouraged other Europeans to start colonization
  • The makeup of indigenous American societies, from their social hierarchies and complex cultures to diverse political structures
  • Colonization of the Caribbean islands and the establishment of the Spanish West Indies
  • The arrival of Hernán Cortés and his groundbreaking expedition into the Aztec Empire in modern-day Mexico
  • The conquest of the Maya civilization in the Yucatán Peninsula and the power dynamics between different power-hungry conquistador groups there
  • The magnificent Inca Empire in the South American Andes and its conquest by Francisco Pizarro

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    Format

    audiobook

    Edition

    Unabridged

    Author

    Billy Wellman

    Narrator

    Jay Herbert

    Publisher

    Billy Wellman

    Release

    08 August 2023

    Share

    Subjects

    Education History Nonfiction
    The Incas and Spanish Conquest