RousseauX
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Unlike Cortez and the Aztec Empire, Pizarro's conquest of the Incan Empire required -a lot- more luck and his band of conquistador basically got really lucky and captured the Incan emperor Atahualpa at what could very well be interpreted as a diplomatic banquet between the two leaders, this allowed him to topple over an Incan empire already weakened by European disease.
But let's just say he's less lucky, Atahualpa escapes capture, over the next couple of weeks Pizarro's little band of 160 or so men are whittled down by guerrilla attacks from Incan soldiers until their numbers dwindled enough that they are overwhelmed by superior Incan forces.
What happens from here on out? Does another band of Spaniards show up a few years later and does the conquest anyway? If some domestic Spanish politics prevents that for a decade or two does the empire fall to disease anyway? Can the Incans somehow survive as at least a rump state and make themselves useful enough to the Spanish crown or colonial governors that they avoid full conquests and survive the colonial era?
But let's just say he's less lucky, Atahualpa escapes capture, over the next couple of weeks Pizarro's little band of 160 or so men are whittled down by guerrilla attacks from Incan soldiers until their numbers dwindled enough that they are overwhelmed by superior Incan forces.
What happens from here on out? Does another band of Spaniards show up a few years later and does the conquest anyway? If some domestic Spanish politics prevents that for a decade or two does the empire fall to disease anyway? Can the Incans somehow survive as at least a rump state and make themselves useful enough to the Spanish crown or colonial governors that they avoid full conquests and survive the colonial era?