Tom Holland
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Appearances Over Time
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And if you want a really good example of extractive settler colonialism, this is a very good one.
And actually, royal officials are telling Pizarro, stop.
Stop giving out other people's lands.
The Indians, so-called, are free Spanish subjects under the crown.
It's not your place to give them to people.
But the other conquistadors keep saying to him, we want more land.
And if he wants to keep his position as top dog, he has to appease them.
It's a big problem for Pizarro.
Bigger problem for Manco, though.
If young Manco, the young emperor, is watching this in his palace, he is thinking, what's happening?
My empire has been given away around me.
His position, of course, is incredibly insecure.
He's young.
There's been a civil war.
There's a growing sense that he's a Spanish puppet.
There are complaints coming in to his palace all the time.
The Spanish are behaving badly in the countryside.
They're enslaving people.
They're raiding villages.
They're searching for gold.