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Television: The Great Inca Rebellion Peru

Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 19 June 2007  Page Views: 1944

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Country: Peru On the USA PBS stations, June 26, 2007 at 8 pm ET. Check local listings
NOVA and National Geographic reveal the untold final chapter of the conquest: not the Spanish walkover familiar from well-known accounts, but rather a protracted and complex war of astonishing brutality that almost led to the Spanish losing their precarious foothold in the Andes.

Excavated by Peruvian archaeologist Guillermo Cock, in a truly startling find, he discovers corpses that differ from all the rest. They have been hastily buried and disfigured by multiple, appalling wounds and fractures. Forensic experts help to determine that these remains are victims of a battle that pitted club-wielding Inca warriors against Spanish cavalry. The forensic evidence may be a decisive clue that helps explain a long-standing mystery about the Spanish conquest of Peru. How, in 1532, did a tiny band of Spanish soldiers crush the mighty Inca Empire, then the most powerful civilization in the Americas? Were the conquistadors' obvious advantages-steel arms, gunpowder, and horses-the key to their success, as is generally supposed? Or were disease and civil war more significant factors that were downplayed by the invaders? By uncovering new evidence from the Lima cemetery, NOVA and National Geographic reveal the untold final chapter of the conquest: not the Spanish walkover familiar from well-known accounts, but rather a protracted and complex war of astonishing brutality that almost led to the Spanish losing their precarious foothold in the Andes. A production of NOVA and National Geographic Television.

Note: The Incas fight back - and who stops them?
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Re: Television: The Great Inca Rebellion by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 August 2007
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Gee, Anonymous ---
Are you arguing that EVERYONE already knew this information, so this piece of popular science/history (NOVA is only scholarly when compared to nearly everything else on American television) served no purpose at all?
Are you arguing that the good honest Spaniards were the saviors of the peoples of South and Central America? And it was false of the program to cast them in any other light?
Are you arguing that it's "Imperialism" to tell a story that is apparently little known or unknown in common, popular history? Or is it "Imperialistic" to imply that someone doesn't know this story? (They insulted your intelligence by telling you something you already knew. I guess those of us not already so blessed should have remained ignorant...) Hyperbole for a TV program becomes "Imperialism"?
And would the Latin American pathologist have been more or less "white"? I'd imagine it's a matter of who is funding the dig and this show and less about an imperialistic slap in the face of Peruvian pathologists. Oh, but wait, you could tell already that it was a gunshot wound -- no need to go to any pathologist.
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Re: Television: The Great Inca Rebellion by Anonymous on Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Although, the program "The Great Inca Rebellion" should have been remembered for documenting the first gunshot wound of the Americas, I believe that instead it will ultimately be remembered for its scholastic dishonesty in inkeeping with a general American Culture bent on revising history (particularly historical accounts by Christians). I am not against revising history when the facts warrant it. But this program is almost comical in its proposition that an archeological find revealed facts that were not previously known. The idea that Pizarro had an Indian concubine who saved the day is familiar to anyone who has actually studied the conquest of the Americas written by priests (called scribes by Townsend/Nova/PBS’ religiously secular program). Does “La Malinche” ring a bell to Townsend or any NOVA scholars? Didn’t the dishonest Spanish Chroniclers reveal to us the important role that an indigenous woman had in the conquest of Mexico? Didn’t most of the Spaniards follow much the same pattern in the conquest of all the Americas? This very biased Townsend/NOVA/PBS program never really analyzed why the Spaniards found so many willing allies (if the Spaniards were so evil) among the indigenous peoples. Could it be that the cruelty and cannibalism of the Incas, the Aztecs (Mexicas) and other Imperialistic tribes compelled other Indians to join the Spaniards? What does that tell us about the evil Spaniards (that they actually played a liberating role)? As for the dishonest Spanish Chroniclers: who told us that the Spaniards used other indigenous tribes as allies? The dishonest Spanish Chroniclers. Who told us that there was a siege at Lima? The dishonest Spanish Chroniclers. Who told us that cavalry charges were NOT the single greatest reason for the Spaniards’ military victories? The dishonest Spanish Chroniclers. Who recorded the eyewitness accounts of the Indians who were present at the siege of Lima? The dishonest Spanish Chroniclers. You know, for being dishonest, they sure did tell us a lot. It appears that Townsend/Nova/PBS (and National Geographic) have never read any Greek, Roman, Assyrian, Egyptian or Babylonian Chronicles. The Spaniards were paragons of honesty in comparison. By the way, none of the facts that were uncovered negate the Spanish version of the facts. Though more credit was given to the Spaniards than Townsend/NOVA/PBS wanted, nothing in the Spanish account precluded assistance from other indigenous tribes at the siege of Lima: PARTICULARLY WHEN THIS FACT WAS A GIVEN THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST ACCOUNTS. Bernal Diaz del Castillo (an eyewitness to the conquest of Mexico) and other Spanish Chroniclers NEVER hide the fact that the Spaniards depended on indigenous tribes for intelligence, logistical support, translation and even food.
While we’re on the topic of dishonesty and cultural imperialism: are there no forensic experts in Latin America? Why did an excavation in deepest South America have to call upon the Great White Man to reveal what was plain to the naked eye; that the wound to that poor Inca was a gunshot wound? Could it be that if a Latin American forensic pathologist had declared it to be a gunshot wound that this would not be a fact until a Great White PBSologist declared it so? I remember Mohammed Ali noting that even Tarzan of the Apes in Deepest Darkest Africa was a white man? This couldn’t be the same kind of Intellectual Imperialism that PBS says the Spaniards had, COULD IT? ¡NO PUEDE SER!
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The Great Inca Rebellion by Anonymous on Wednesday, 27 June 2007
This is an interesting episode, featuring archaeological evidence of the earliest gunshot victim in the New World.

The rebellion in question is the "Siege of Lima". The Spanish described this as a huge 10,000 strong counter offenseive from the Inca, routed by 200 Spanards using a calvalry charge. Evidence (archaeological and historical) is presented to paint this version as a self-serving cover-up: the Spanish disguised their dependence on Indian allies (who dispised the Inca as an ethnic group) to enshrine their own bravery. (The Pizaro family seems to have supported the "Us against the savages" story in an attempt to line their pockets with the crown's treasury of stolen Inca gold.)

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