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Prologue

"They were lords of the city of Cuzco and all the lands under its authority, including a thousand leagues extending from the Maule River in Chile up to that place where the city of Quito lies. They controlled and ruled it all until the Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro conquered it and put it under the yoke..."

Juan De Betanzos - Narrative of the Incas (1557)