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How can the National Geographic glorified the conquest done by the Spaniard, who slaughter thousands of Inca people, for what? Their greed for gold? "It was a great "victory" done by the Conquistadors," the narrator stated in the Inca Mummies: Secrets of the Lost World. From a view point of an Indigenise, it was a massacre, not a so called "victory". I always believed that the National Geographic was unbiased and neutral in reporting a story to their media. Now, I am not so sure what to believe.I believe that if more Indigenise or Native people would speak up for ourselves to report our way of telling a story to the media. Than the media would have a better understanding of how our "Ancestors" lived and not of the way of a European decent. So much had already been lost since the so called days of discovery of the America had been done. I believe the writer should come from the Indigenise or Native decent being told.The narrator also stated that "the Inca worshiped many gods." My question is, what is the difference in worshiping many "gods" (Spirits) and than worshiping many "saints" from the Roman Catholic religion? Isn't it based upon human faith, culture, tradition, and religion? Who really has the true supremacy to say how a person can believe in?
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Incas were never weak as an Empire. By the time Spaniards arrived to their land, there was a strong group of variables that put together endangered the Inca civilization. When Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco, he found out that there was a rivalry between the Inca Huascar, and his brother Atahualpa. Huascar was enthroned and Atahualpa was envious of that.
Atahualpa had some followers and conspired to kill Huascar; when Huascar finally died, the Inca civilization was in an state of moral fragility, this was the the opportunity Francisco Pizarro used to conquer.
During this period of time there was also a big pandemic due to the new microbes brought by the Spaniards. If you have had the opportunity to study Latin American history and read Jared Diamond's book "Germs, Guns and Steel" you would certainly remember that these pandemics came with the conquerors as they walked through the lands. This is the second reason why the Empire fell. The third reason is that they had horses and gunpowder. In using technologies and species completely unknown to the Incas, and arriving in the midst of a civil war, and seizing the Inca Atahualpa, the Spaniards were savvy enough to bring down an empire that was already weakened from disease and recovering from a civil war. Without the pandemic and the civil war, the Spaniards would have been crushed by the sheer numbers of Incas. To say that they were weak is to be unaware of their history and the time when the Spaniards arrived and through the cunning of their leaders were able to bring down an empire. At any other time, they would have wiped out. As for the poverty of the country, I do believe that the poverty is merely economic (currently Peru is the second fastest growing economy in South America) in nature, because it is rich in culture, land, natural resources and its people.