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Had another one of my crazy thoughts while trying to fall asleep. What if the conquest of the Inca was seriously delayed. Say Pizzaro met with a misfortune. He came close enough on more than one occasion. Anyway, let's say the conquest was delayed, and instead of outright domination, the Incan Empire was made a protectorate of Spain. Now when they broke free of the shackles in the early 19th Century, what would this state look like? Would they call themselves Peru or Tawantinsuyu? Would it still be a monarchy, or would they go the way of the Bolivarians and become the Incan Republic? What about their religion? As a protectorate, no doubt Spain would send in the missionaries. Would they be outright Catholic, or a mixture of Catholicism and their old beliefs? What about language? Would Spanish be a dominate language, or would Inca be like Algeria where the overlord's language was only one for the educated and elite? What did they speak anyway; Quecha? I think that's still spoken in parts of Peru and ecuador.

Throw some ideas at me, for I think I'll try and tackle this one the way I did Songhai.
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