In Mexico, the Spanish puppet-Tlatoanis could not hinder the anger of large groups against the heavy forced labor, the social misery and the forced Christianizing. The first major Indian resistance was due to Caxcanes in present Mexican states of Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes. In 1540, they resisted the Spaniards slavelike conditions and executions by entrenching…
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MODSTAND MOD DET SPANSKE KOLONISTYRE
I Mexico kunne spaniernes lyd-tlatoanier ikke hindre store gruppers vrede mod det tunge tvangsarbejde, den sociale elendighed og tvangskristningen. Den første større indianske modstand skyldtes caxcanere i de nuværende mexicanske delstater Jalisco, Zacatecas og Aguascalientes. I 1540 modsatte de sig spaniernes slavelignende forhold og henrettelser ved at forskanse sig på Mixtón-bjerget, og de holdt det…
PERU: A ROYAL RESCUER
In this chaos, when the Spanish soldiers are facing one days march from Cusco, a young man emerges from an apparent nothingness. I know it may sound like a narrators solution when the action has to speed up. But then: The young man presents himself to Pizarro: I, Manco Inca, is son of Inca Huayna…
PERU: EN KONGELIG REDNINGSMAND
I dette kaos, da de spanske soldater står en dagsmarch fra Cusco, dukker en ung mand op af en tilsyneladende intethed – jeg ved godt at det kan lyde som en fortællers løsning, når handlingen skal op i omdrejninger. Men altså: Den unge præsenterer sig for Pizarro: Jeg, Manco Inka, er søn af Inka Huayna…
PERU: THE CONQUEST SPEEDS UP
A few days after Atahualpa is executed, Pizarro appoints a replacement. A new Inca instead of the dead. Túpac Huallpa is also son of Huayna Cápac, and is half-brother of Atahualpa and Huáscar. With this appointment, Pizarro hopes to satisfy Inca nobles and soldiers, or at least to pacify them. Túpac Huallpa is attempted to…
PERU: ATAHUALPA SENTENCED TO DEATH
The sun is setting on July 26, 1533 while Spanish soldiers led Sapa Inca Atahualpa with iron around the neck into the square where he had been captured eight months earlier. A blast on a trumpet opens the show trial with Pizarro and Almagro as judges, Sancho de Cuellar as clerk and Filipillo as interpreter….
PERU: ATAHUALPA DØMMES TIL DØDEN
Solen synker den 26. juli 1533 mens spanske soldater fører sapa inka Atahualpa med jern om halsen ind på pladsen, hvor han var blevet taget til fange otte måneder forinden. Et stød i en trompet åbner skueprocessen med Pizarro og Almagro som dommere, Sancho de Cuellar som sekretær og Filipillo som oversætter. 12 spørgsmål stilles…
PERU: ATAHUALPA IS BORNE IN
Saturday, November 16, the sun rises on an almost cloudless sky. No one knows when Inca will come, no one can know if he will come and if then how. Chaskis are announcing that he will come armed, and that’s what Pizarro expects, but answers that he would be received by him as a friend…
PERU: ATAHUALPA BÆRES IND
Lørdag den 16. november stiger solen på en næsten skyfri himmel. Ingen ved hvornår inkaen kommer, ja ingen kan vide om han kommer og i så fald hvordan. Chaskier meddeler at han vil komme bevæbnet, og det forventer Pizarro, men svarer dog at han vil modtage ham som en ven og bror. Derpå meddeler en…
MEXICO: TREMENDOUSLY TENOCHTITLÁN DESTROYED
Already in 1520, after Cortés had been welcomed by Moctezuma and had taken him hostage, he wrote to King Carlos how many tremendously beautiful temples there were in Tenochtitlán. Amongst these mosques, there is one principal one, and no human tongue is able to describe its greatness and details, because it is so large that…
MEXICO: DET UMÅDELIGT SMUKKE TENOCHTITLÁN ØDELAGT
Allerede i 1520, efter Cortés var blevet budt velkommen af Moctezuma og havde taget ham som gidsel, skrev han til kong Carlos hvor mange umådeligt smukke templer verdensbyen Tenochtitlán rummede. Blandt disse templer er der et hovedtempel, som ingen menneskelig tunge er i stand til at beskrive storheden og ornamenteringen af, for det er så…
MEXICO: CUAUHTÉMOC MEETS CORTÉS
In his letter to King Carlos, Cortés wrote that he had let Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc know that he was waiting for his arrival, but apparently the Tlatoani had decided not to come. The answer of the Tlatoani was that he did not want anything but death. Cortés also wrote that he had promised some Aztec chiefs…
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