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God, Glory and Gold: Journey to the Conquest of the Incas - The Beginning

Author : Paul M. Kochis
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1938223772
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book God, Glory and Gold: Journey to the Conquest of the Incas - The Beginning written by Paul M. Kochis and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long, improbable journey to the Conquest of the Incas is an incredible, modern story. While the Inca Empire was expanding along the Pacific coast of South America, the backward Kingdom of Castile and Leon was mired in political intrigue. This is a story of courage, luck, colossal misjudgments and soaring ambition by entrepreneurs who would lead a culture clash ending in the fall of the Inca Empire and the rise of the Spanish Empire that lasted two hundred years due to Inca treasure. Heroic figures such as Queen Isabella, Christopher Columbus, Emperor Charles V, Hernando de Soto, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and Ponce de Leon come alive as the Castilian kingdom attempts to seize and settle the New world. In doing so, Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almalgro press against all odds to find the mysterious kingdom first called Biru. They encounter a vast, sophisticated empire crafted by iconic leaders named Pachecutec, Topa Inca and Huyana Capac. Succeeding by guile

God, Glory and Gold: Journey to the Conquest of the Incas - The Quest

Author : Paul M. Kochis
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1938223810
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book God, Glory and Gold: Journey to the Conquest of the Incas - The Quest written by Paul M. Kochis and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long, improbable journey to the Conquest of the Incas is an incredible, modern story. While the Inca Empire was expanding along the Pacific coast of South America, the backward Kingdom of Castile and Leon was mired in political intrigue. This is a story of courage, luck, colossal misjudgments and soaring ambition by entrepreneurs who would lead a culture clash ending in the fall of the Inca Empire and the rise of the Spanish Empire that lasted two hundred years due to Inca treasure. All the players sought the same things: independence, security, honor, wealth and glory. Few achieved their goals in any lasting sense but many displayed the indomitable spirit of motivated visionaries. This is their story.

Desire for Gold and Conquest

Author : Jose A. Caparo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258019099
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Desire for Gold and Conquest written by Jose A. Caparo and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glory, God, and Gold

Author : Paul Iselin Wellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glory, God, and Gold written by Paul Iselin Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

River of Darkness

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 1635769205
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book River of Darkness written by Buddy Levy and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Labyrinth of Ice charts the legendary sixteenth-century adventurer’s death-defying navigation of the Amazon River. In 1541, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his lieutenant Francisco Orellana searched for La Canela, South America’s rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, “the golden man.” Quickly, the enormous expedition of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses, and hunting dogs were decimated through disease, starvation, and attacks in the jungle. Hopelessly lost in the swampy labyrinth, Pizarro and Orellana made the fateful decision to separate. While Pizarro eventually returned home in rags, Orellana and fifty-seven men continued into the unknown reaches of the mighty Amazon jungle and river. Theirs would be the greater glory. Interweaving historical accounts with newly uncovered details, Levy reconstructs Orellana’s journey as the first European to navigate the world’s largest river. Every twist and turn of the powerful Amazon holds new wonders and the risk of death. Levy gives a long-overdue account of the Amazon’s people—some offering sustenance and guidance, others hostile, subjecting the invaders to gauntlets of unremitting attacks and signs of terrifying rituals. Violent and beautiful, noble and tragic, River of Darkness is riveting history and breathtaking adventure that will sweep readers on a voyage unlike any other. Praise for Buddy Levy and River of Darkness “In River of Darkness, Buddy Levy recounts Orellana’s headlong dash down the Amazon. Like Mr. Levy’s last book, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico, River of Darkness presents a fast-moving tale of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds. . . . Though impromptu, the expedition was one of the most amazing adventures of all time.” —Wall Street Journal “An exciting, well-plotted excursion down the Amazon River with the early Spanish conquistador. . . . [A] richly textured account of the rogue, rebel and visionary whose discovery still resonates today.” —Kirkus Reviews “A rollicking adventure . . . Levy successfully conveys the Amazon’s power and majesty, while shedding light on the futility of humanity’s attempt to tame it.” —The A.V. Club

The Last Days of the Incas

Author : Kim MacQuarrie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743260503
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of the Incas written by Kim MacQuarrie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the epic conquest of the Inca Empire as well as the decades-long insurgency waged by the Incas against the Conquistadors, in a narrative history that is partially drawn from the storytelling traditions of the Peruvian Amazon Yora people. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Incas

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incas written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1992 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a history of the Inca Empire and chronicles Incan life through the archaeological discoveries found in the Andes Mountains.

Francisco Pizarro

Author : Charles H. L. Johnston
Publisher : Namaskar Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Francisco Pizarro written by Charles H. L. Johnston and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on an epic journey through history with the riveting tale of Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire. Join Pizarro and his band of adventurers as they brave the unknown, facing danger and intrigue at every turn in their quest for riches and glory. As Pizarro sets his sights on the fabled riches of the Inca Empire, he embarks on a daring expedition into the heart of South America. Against all odds, he and his men navigate treacherous terrain and fierce opposition, driven by ambition and the promise of untold wealth. But amidst the drama of conquest lies a question that haunts Pizarro and his men: At what cost will they claim their prize? As they encounter the splendor and majesty of the Inca civilization, they grapple with the moral implications of their quest for conquest and power. Follow Pizarro's journey as he faces off against the formidable Inca ruler, Atahualpa, in a dramatic showdown that will shape the destiny of empires. Through betrayal, intrigue, and battlefield tactics, Pizarro and Atahualpa vie for supremacy in a clash of civilizations. Are you ready to relive one of history's most dramatic and consequential conquests? Immerse yourself in the epic tale of "Francisco Pizarro: Conquest of the Inca Empire," where the clash of civilizations unfolds against the backdrop of the New World. Join Pizarro on a journey of conquest, betrayal, and redemption. Experience the drama and intrigue of history's greatest conquest. Order your copy of "Francisco Pizarro: Conquest of the Inca Empire" today and discover the epic tale of one man's quest for glory. Don't miss your chance to journey back in time to the age of exploration and conquest. Purchase "Francisco Pizarro: Conquest of the Inca Empire" now and experience the thrill of adventure and discovery.

“The” Conquest of the Incas

Author : John Hemming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book “The” Conquest of the Incas written by John Hemming and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In the Land of Frozen Fires

Author : Neil C. Mangum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book In the Land of Frozen Fires written by Neil C. Mangum and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conquest of the Incas

Author : John Hemming
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330427302
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Conquest of the Incas written by John Hemming and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb work of narrative history' Antonia Fraser On 25 September 1513, a force of weary Spanish explorers cut through the forests of Panama and were confronted with an ocean: the Mar del Sur, or the Pacific Ocean. Six years later the Spaniards had established the town of Panama as a base from which to explore and exploit this unknown sea. It was the threshold of a vast expansion. From the first small band of Spanish adventurers to enter the mighty Inca empire, to the execution of the last Inca forty years later, The Conquest of the Incas is a story of bloodshed, infamy, rebellion and extermination, told as convincingly as if it happened yesterday. 'It is a delight to praise a book of this quality which combines careful scholarship with sparkling narrative skill' Philip Magnus, Sunday Times 'A superbly vivid history' The Times

Desire for Gold and Conquest

Author : Jose Angel Caparo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desire for Gold and Conquest written by Jose Angel Caparo and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Books of the Brave

Author : Irving Albert Leonard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520079908
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Books of the Brave written by Irving Albert Leonard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information that is sure to spark future study, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction signals the lasting value of Books of the Brave and brings the reader up to date on developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World. Since its original publication in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to Spain's New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores to the Americas and goes on to argue that popular texts influenced these men and shaped the way they thought and wrote about their New World experiences. For the first time in English, this edition combines Leonard's text with a selection of the documents that were his most valuable sources--nine lists of books destined for the Indies. Containing a wealth of information that is sure to spark future study, these lists provide the documentary evidence for what is perhaps Leonard's greatest contribution: his demonstration that royal and inquisitorial prohibitions failed to control the circulation of books and ideas in colonial Spanish America. Rolena Adorno's introduction signals the lasting value of Books of the Brave and brings the reader up to date on developments in cultural-historical studies that have shed light on the role of books in Spanish American colonial culture. Adorno situates Leonard's work at the threshold between older, triumphalist views of Spanish conquest history and more recent perspectives engendered by studies of native American peoples. With its rich descriptions of the book trade in both Spain and America, Books of the Brave has much to offer historians as well as literary critics. Indeed, it is a highly readable and engaging book for anyone interested in the cultural life of the New World.

The Conquest of the Incas

Author : John Hemming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Conquest of the Incas written by John Hemming and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Conquistador

Author : Stuart Stirling
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952849
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Last Conquistador written by Stuart Stirling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 1999-10-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inca civilization of Peru was one of the gratest of the ancient civilizations of the Americas. Famous for their massive temples and fortresses built from huge blocks of stone and decorated with sheets of pure gold, the Incas also developed a system of government, capable of holding a vast area of territory together, and an extensive system of roads, connecting administrative centres, which acted as a means of colonization. Their religion of human sacrifice, worshipping Inti, the Sun God, was forcibly imposed throughout the empire. The population in 1500 numbered between six and seven million, but in the 1530s the Spanish, led by conquistador Pizarro, arrived in Peru. In their search for gold they devastated the Inca culture, destroying its treasures, killing its leaders and bringing to an end the infrastructure of its empire. By the 1570s, native American control in Peru had been completely lost and the civilization was no more. With Pizarro came Mansio Serra de Leguizamon, who became the last of the Spanish conquistadors to die. This book tells his story. After crossing the Atlantic when still in his teens, he played a central part in the conquest of the Incas, survived imprisonment and torture, took an Inca princess as his lover, abandoned his wife for the gaming tables of Lima, and spent the rest of his life in Peru. He died at the age of 78, leaving a famous apology for the conquest in his will. This book takes this document as its starting point, weaving a tale of the vicious subjugation of the Inca civilization.

They Thought They Were Gods

Author : David Britton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452075211
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)

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Download or read book They Thought They Were Gods written by David Britton and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is an account of the Spanish invasion and conquest of Peru, and of the native struggle, led by Manco Inca Yupanqui, to defeat it. It traces the history of those years from the death of the last great Inca, Huayna Capac, in 1528, probably from smallpox, which the Spanish brought to South America, to the death of the last Conquistadore, Don Gonzalo Pizarro, who was executed for treason in 1548, following his abortive rebellion against Spanish imperial rule. The story is told by an Inca nobleman, Huayna Rimac, who was Curaca (Governor) of Machu Picchu and, later, of Vilcabamba, as well as being the age mate, confidant, friend, and aide de camp of Manco Inca. The book does not try to present a balanced and fair account of the conflict between the two empires. It is an Inca account of the conflict. Huayna Rimac, however, as time went on, began to appreciate the strengths of the Spanish, as well as their weaknesses. Eventually, he was, reluctantly, forced to give them credit for their achievements. The book clearly shows the differences between the two sides in a clash, which was as much cultural as military. The two empires could not coexist side by side. One culture would have to yield to the other. The book makes it clear that the decisive factor in the struggle was technological. The Incas, unfortunately, did not have access to iron, whereas the Spanish did. Spanish steel was some of the best in Europe in that period, whereas the Incas used bronze. The result was inevitable. However, the book makes it clear that Inca courage and determination came agonizingly close to overcoming superior Spanish technology. At the end Huayna Rimac is left to ponder his own future in a Peru dominated by Spanish power.

American Holocaust

Author : David E. Stannard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199838984
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book American Holocaust written by David E. Stannard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard begins with a portrait of the enormous richness and diversity of life in the Americas prior to Columbus's fateful voyage in 1492. He then follows the path of genocide from the Indies to Mexico and Central and South America, then north to Florida, Virginia, and New England, and finally out across the Great Plains and Southwest to California and the North Pacific Coast. Stannard reveals that wherever Europeans or white Americans went, the native people were caught between imported plagues and barbarous atrocities, typically resulting in the annihilation of 95 percent of their populations. What kind of people, he asks, do such horrendous things to others? His highly provocative answer: Christians. Digging deeply into ancient European and Christian attitudes toward sex, race, and war, he finds the cultural ground well prepared by the end of the Middle Ages for the centuries-long genocide campaign that Europeans and their descendants launched--and in places continue to wage--against the New World's original inhabitants. Advancing a thesis that is sure to create much controversy, Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. At once sweeping in scope and meticulously detailed, American Holocaust is a work of impassioned scholarship that is certain to ignite intense historical and moral debate.