I hate noble savage mythologizing. The Inca civil war that was wrapping up as Pizarro arrived was incredibly brutal. Apparently Atahualpa was still drinking from the skull of one of Huascar’s defeated generals when he and Pizarro infamously met each other at Cajamarca.

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also these are imperial powers we're talking about here with trade networks that went remarkably far north, just because they weren't as powerful as spain doesn't mean they weren't imperial powers

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it is extremely funny that the Aztecs were legitimately scared and offended by the Purepecha's attempts to murder as many Aztecs as possible every time Aztec warriors showed up to fight Tarascan soldiers

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Beto would have won if a serious Latine candidate had run in 2018.

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