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Diplomatic ties with local peoples, including subordinated mitmas and yanakona, were a critical asset for the Spanish.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“And secondly,”
“critically,”
“the asset through diplomacy of the local peoples,”
“the subordinated mitmas, they were called,”
“or yanakona,”
“serfs, the defeated and subordinated people of the Inca bought forcibly within their imperial structure,”Play from 38:58Report a misattribution
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