Tom Holland
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Appearances Over Time
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I guess one point worth saying is none of these people have been to Mexico.
So they've got no standard of comparison.
Yeah.
Because it's not as good as Tenochtitlan, which is bigger, I think, and more impressive.
Yeah.
Or maybe they've been in Peru long enough and kind of cantering through so many small villages that to arrive at somewhere this vast is kind of overwhelming.
I think that's probably right.
You know, they were anxious when they arrived, of course, after all the fighting and after Kayamaka and stuff, but they are delighted.
The people greet them as liberators.
They move into the palaces of the Incas.
What happens to their bodies, to the mummies?
Presumably still there.
I don't know.
Well, that's a bit creepy.
And Pizarro, don't forget, Pizarro's got a form.
I mean, he spent the night with Atahualpa.
Yeah, but he was alive.
I mean, would he spend a night with a 200-year-old mummy?
With Atahualpa's father.
With George III, would you?