Historically

On the American continent, which seems to be like an ancient flood, there was also a splendid ancient country 'Inca' that appeared.

This is a 'powerful' country that has appeared on the American continent after the mysterious 'Mayan civilization'.

It's just a pity that this country is not very civilized, and because of some external reasons, it has disappeared in the long river of history.

It's not a pity. The Inca Empire is also known as the Mayan Empire.

Because there is a part of the people who believe that the foundation of the Inca Empire was built on the foundation of the mysteriously disappeared Mayan civilization.

But most people still use the new name 'Inca'.

The Inca Empire, when it was powerful and glorious, ruled the entire coast of Central America, and its tentacles even extended to part of South America.

Several large cities have been established, with a population of hundreds of thousands, which is not far from the population of European cities.

And the population of the entire country together is even more than 10 million.

It can't be said that it is not powerful for a while.

It's just that the Inca Empire had a very ancient and cruel and bloody activity, human sacrifice.

It was because of this activity that a huge empire collapsed and perished.

I have to say that this is really a big joke played by history and the Incas.

The origin of human sacrifice is unknown, but it is known that this activity has been practiced in various parts of the world since the beginning of human history.

This is true in the West, in the East, and even on the American continent.

Leaving aside the East and the West, let's just say that the living sacrifice activities on the American continent are a continuation of the mysterious Mayan civilization.

The Mayan civilization also had this activity in the first place.

After the mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization, the Inca Empire completely inherited this activity.

There are two types of sources of human sacrifice, one is to voluntarily become a sacrifice to receive God's gifts.

On the other hand, prisoners of war were used as sacrifices.

The former belongs to the desire for happiness and dedication to God.

But the latter is a completely different story.

This is especially true when there is an unexplained natural or man-made disaster in the Inca. Human sacrifice will occur frequently.

In many cases, the source of sacrifices of the Inca Empire would be captured from the surrounding primitive tribes that did not join the empire.

After all, on this side of the Caribbean, although the Inca Empire was powerful, it was still surrounded by dense primitive small tribes.

The population of these tribes is usually small, basically a few hundred people are a tribe, and some small tribes have only a few dozen people.

The existence of these tribes provided a source of sacrifice for the sacrifice of the living.

The Inca Empire was not as brain-dead as later Europeans said, or the Spaniards said.

Their rulers also understand. What are the disadvantages of human sacrifice.

People from your own country won't kill, so it's better to kill those 'wild' tribes outside.

And the arrival of the Spaniards added a fire to the event.

After the Spaniards came into contact with the Incas at that time, some Spanish soldiers became prisoners.

For captives, the Incas have always been sacrificed.

It can be sacrificed to the gods and please the gods.

And it can also destroy the enemy.

It's a great way to do it.

Unfortunately, what the Incas did not know was that when they brought back these Spanish captives, they also brought back a disease that they had never encountered.

Typhoid!

Typhoid fever if left untreated. It will spread rapidly and cause a massive plague.

Europeans have had many plagues in their history.

Hence the Europeans of this era. There is some resistance to the plague.

But the Incas were different.

They lived on this side of the American continent, not like Europe, where there were wars, or epidemics.

The Inca cities of this era were very clean compared to Europe.

It's about the same as the East. The Inca Empire was quite hygienic and in good condition.

They even have sanitary toilets as well as washing facilities.

Therefore, here in the Inca Empire, there were basically no major epidemics.

Because they pay attention to their hygiene.

But that's because of that. The Incas, who had not been baptized by the plague, were completely tragic.

In their bodies, there is no resistance to the plague at all.

Therefore, the plague spread very quickly and fiercely in the Inca Empire.

The menacing plague caused panic at the grassroots level of the Inca Empire.

They didn't know what was going on.

In the end, everyone regarded this plague, which had taken the lives of countless people, as a punishment for the gods.

Since it is the punishment of the gods, then you must make the living beings happy, so that the gods will not punish you anymore.

How can we please the gods?

Human sacrifice!

At this point, the Inca Empire began to invade the surrounding areas on a large scale, capturing the living people of those 'wild' tribes as sacrifices.

At this time, another incident occurred in the Inca Empire, which led to the rapid collapse of the empire.

Judging by the history books, the Inca Empire was a huge country.

It seems to be of the centralized type.

In fact, this is not the case, the composition of the Inca Empire is actually somewhat similar to that of the Alliance, and there are noble lords involved.

The highest emperor and the priests, in fact, they sometimes have to look at the faces of these people.

And the Inca epidemic of plague suddenly stimulated all the contradictions that were usually hidden.

A small Inca nobleman, because there were no 'wild' tribes in the vicinity to capture, but he had to find a way for the sake of human sacrifice, so he hit the idea of another small lord nearby.

Anyway, they usually have friction, and it's not impossible to take the opportunity to retaliate now.

Nowadays, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, and as long as they do it unknowingly, there is no problem.

It's just that he didn't know what to do, and his actions led to the collapse of the Inca Empire.

And the Inca Empire at this moment is full of scenes of human sacrifice.

The scene in the capital is larger, and the territory of the minor noble lords is smaller.

In short, the activity of human sacrifice was vigorous here in the Inca Empire.

Large-scale sacrifice, an event down. It's no surprise to cut off thousands of heads.

Dozens of heads will be cut off at small events.

The people were in a frenzy and forgot about the frightening plague.

There was a demand for this, and in order to stabilize and retain the power in their hands, how could those nobles and minor lords not work hard.

However, this activity had to start for a long time, because as the plague spread, more and more people were infected.

People are also getting scared of it.

So, people need to be numb.

The 'wild' offerings in the surrounding area became less and less, and some tribes began to flee.

This has led to sacrifices becoming increasingly difficult to capture.

However, the practice of human sacrifice must be maintained. Otherwise, the people in the territory will riot, and their position will be unstable.

The first minor nobleman, who attacked a nearby lord for sacrifice.

He starts a vicious circle, and all the nobles and lords find a new purpose.

Yes, you can also capture their people from the territory of nearby lords as sacrifices.

Moreover, among them, there are many people who take advantage of this opportunity to kill lords or nobles who do not agree with them. Occupy their territory and expand their territory.

In this way, civil strife began in the name of justice in the name of the people in his own territory.

The epidemic of plague has greatly damaged the vitality of the Inca Empire.

Human sacrifice. Let the various noble lords fight each other, and the populace of the Inca Empire will die even more.

Instead of fighting to expand the number of the people, every time they defeated their opponents, they would be beheaded as sacrifices from nobles to ordinary people.

The people of the Inca Empire who died because of the sacrifice of the living. It is ironic that more people died than in the plague.

The entanglement of all kinds of power, coupled with the expansion of ambition. As a result, the situation is getting worse and worse.

The Spaniards could not have imagined that the mighty Inca Empire would have such brainless civil strife.

And they don't need to be taken prisoners, and they actually behead all the people who can expand their strength.

A barbarian is a barbarian.

However, this is a good thing for Spain.

At this point, the Spaniards, who got the news, immediately joined the battle.

At this time, the Inca Empire, because of the plague and the killing between the noble lords, was very withered.

The fields are barren, and the bones on the roadside are exposed.

The Spaniards were clever enough to not challenge the entire Inca Empire, but only to fight between the lords as mercenaries.

They helped the Incas and killed the Incas more effectively.

The lords and nobles, on the other hand, paid gold and silver in order to hire the Spaniards.

In this way, the Spaniards made a fortune in the process.

The Incas, on the other hand, really suffered a big loss.

Eventually, the Inca Empire grew weaker and weaker, and the Spaniards grew stronger in the process.

The reason is simple, the Spaniards used the war to encircle a group of Incas around.

Later in the war, the Spaniards began to march towards the capital with the 'Inca doglegs' coalition army.

Because the Spaniards heard that the Inca emperor had a lot of gold there.

As for the final result, it is already recorded in the history books.

The poor Inca emperor, who was burned to death by the Spaniards who poured the water from the yellow melt into his throat.

Of course, the Spaniards did not record the matter of the Inca dogleg coalition.

The record of the rise and fall of the Incas only speaks of how strong they are and how weak they are.

But that's not the case.

If it weren't for the plague, if it wasn't for the sacrifice of the living, if it wasn't for the mutual killing of the people among the noble lords.

It is difficult to say, then, whether the Spaniards will emerge victorious at the end of the day.

It's just that history has no ifs, and it was the Spaniards who won in the end.

The Inca Empire, on the other hand, has been dissipated in the long river of history...... (To be continued......)