Links for Digging Deeper: Podcast #2 500 years of Brutal Evangelization
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.
Fr. Bartholome De La Casas
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