Had Pizarro's courtiers been removed early, the conquistadors might have become leaderless, disintegrated, and abandoned the conquest.

“scheme of things there are there are multiple wheels that define history the grand wheels that grind slowly geography and climate and then the small wheels in the foreground are the individuals the key players themselves and this is an integration of that that process the big wheels with the small ones yes if courtiers which could have happened on multiple occasions have been taken out early the conquistadors leaderless rudderless may well have disintegrated and the conquest may have been aborted at that at that level”