Incas and Aztecs, but an alliance consisting of a core of militarily trained Spaniards together with breakaway, populous states that sought independence from tyrannical overlords” While Cahill suggests that alliances brought down the native empires, Diamond makes erroneous claims about Native and Spanish interaction claiming, “In five battles in which respectively 169, 80, 30, 110, and 40 Spaniards slaughtered armies of thousands to tens of thousands of Incas, with not a single Spaniard killed and…
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