Tom Holland

They've got various such people.

What did we say in the Aztec series?

Diversity is not their strength.

So now you might think this is the end of the story.

But you would be wrong.

Because back in Cuzco, Manco has been surveying all this and thinking, this is not quite what I thought it would be.

He's slightly riding a crocodile here.

Yeah.

Because clearly, you know, the Spanish have been melting down all this gold and silver all this time.

It took them three months to do it.

And then Pizarro shared it out.

But the Spanish do not stop there.

Now, every previous Spanish expedition to the New World had degenerated quite quickly into disorder and feuding.

And the conquest of Peru, I'm sorry to say, is no different.

So in March 1934, Pizarro had re-founded Cuzco as a Spanish city under Spanish law.

And at the time, Pizarro, to be fair to him, had directed that locals should be well treated.

And I quote, the native people of this country were created as our brothers and our descendants of our first ancestors.

I mean, that's the sort of message of the Las Casas school, isn't it, Tom?

Yes.

That there are always people in the Spanish world.