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PW, this talk about Columbus and such have taken me back to my youth. Please bare with me as I go back.

I went to the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grades at an American oil camp school, in Venezuela. My teacher was an American lady with an intense interest, in the Inca civilization. This was 1946-1950. Machu Pi Chu had just been discovered. My teacher's name was Rica, I've forgotten her last name.

Rica spent the summers of 1948 and 1949, working as a volunteer for the archeologists, working at Mach Pi Chu. We heard LOTS about the Inca and their ways.

The Aztecs never ventured far from their homeland. Only as far south as the Mayan territory and not far, at all to the north.

The Inca were very different. They were South America's Imperialists. Several hundred years, before Pizzaro came to them, the Inca were steadily subjugating tribes to the south of them.

They had gone as far south as to a point in Argentina's Catamarca Provence. Province. One summer, Rica had taken a bus tour to view the results of the Inca's incursions, to the South.

I could remember a picture , that she had taken of a large, low built structure, thatwas the fartherest sounth of the Inca's journey. Word reached the Inco warriors of the strangers (Spanish that had invaded the home land. The Inca closed up shop and returned to the North.

While in Argentina, my wife and I took a several day trip, driving the Ali Plano. ( High County) We came on toa stone building with some signs around. As I read them, Irealized that I was looking at the structure that Rica had told me of, 50 years earlier. It still give me chills, as I think about it

A bit more and I'll get back on topic.

The last tribes to ressist the Spanish were the Quillmes Tribe, of the central Highlands of the Argentine Andes. They resisted until the mid 1700s. The triibes consolidated in a redoubt. I spent two trips wallking those ruins. I'm enclosing a link to the Quillnes ruins.

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/RUINS-OF-QUILMES

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