This podcast tells the story of the Conquistador Francisco Pizzaro and his conquest of South America and how he forced the indigenous people of Bolivia into becoming slaves and forced them to become Christians under the threat of execution.

Links for Digging

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Wikipedia on Atahualpa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atahualpa

Wikipedia on Francisco Pizarro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pizarro

Wikipedia on the Spanish “Requirement”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Requirement_of_1513

Wkipedia on Bartolome de las Casas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomé_de_las_Casas

Francisco Pizarro on PBS http://www.pbs.org/conquistadors/pizarro/pizarro_a00.html

You can buy a DVD “The Conquistadors” on PBS for $19.99 at: https://shop.pbs.org/michael-wood-conquistadors-dvd/product/CQMW601

This includes a lot on Pizarro and the conquest of South America.

Much of my information came from a tour of the ruins at

Tiawanaku, just about a two-hour drive outside of La Paz. Be sure and visit if

you are in Bolivia. It is worth it. But have an interpreter with you, the

guides, obviously, speak Spanish.

To learn more about the Spanish Requirement of 1513, Google search that topic.

You might want to begin at Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Requirement_of_1513