Pissaro

[jenius]

is it true that Pissaro had help from local native when he kept Lima from being overrun by the Inca in the 1500's?

[jno]

yes, in 1536

[Mosaic]

'The inca'? There was just the one was there?
By heck he'd have to do a lot of running over to overrun a whole country.

[jno]

strictly speaking, yes, there was indeed just the one, at least one at a time. The Inca was the emperor.

The term is now commonly used more widely to mean the people he ruled, but they would never have thought of themselves as Incas.

http://www.latinameri...org/incas/collier.htm

[ABerrant]

Spain would not have been able to conquer vast swathes of the Americas without bolstering their armies (often numbering a mere few hundred conquistadors) with thousands of indios auxiliares.

http://en.wikipedia.o...ki/Indian_auxiliaries

[Mosaic]

So it's the old story - the hated each other enought to side with an invader from another continent.
So the modern age began.....

[boxtops]

sounds like homework to me... ;-)

[sandyRoe]

I've always liked his painting, The Boulevard Montmarte. Did he travel in South America too?
http://t2.gstatic.com...L4uh97EiF1qEgHd1pvjtA

[boxtops]

I thought that too, sandy - but it seems that this is actually PIZARRO - not the same person at all! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro

[jno]

Montmarte, sandy? Shame on anyone committing a typo...