The War of Quito
Pedro Cieza de León
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The War of Quito

Pedro Cieza de León
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The War of Quito is part of the great chronicle of Peru by Pedro Cieza de León (1520-1554), the Spanish conquistador-historian whose firsthand account of the Inca world and the Spanish conquest is among the most trusted of all early sources. This volume, translated for the Hakluyt Society by Clements Markham, narrates the civil wars among the Spanish conquerors of Peru. Cieza wrote with unusual care and sympathy for the conquered. His chronicle is indispensable to Andean history. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Pedro Cieza de León

Pedro Cieza de León was a Spanish soldier and chronicler whose travels through the Andes produced one of the major early accounts of Peru. He observed landscapes, roads, settlements, political traditions, and Indigenous societies with unusual attention to geography and local testimony. His larger Crónica…

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