PEDRO DE CIEZA DE LEON

The Incas had an amazing mail delivery system like the Pony Expess but with runners. They had the fastest mail delivery system in the entire world and it was then faster than many modern systems in the 21st century. So the Inca received the intelligence of what was being said within a day or two, a much better centralized intelligence system than most.

This is a very interesting quotation because it shows that the South American Indians were not only the victims of Spanish colonialism, but before Europeans ever set foot in the New World, expansionism, conquest and colonialism was alive and well. It was just that one Indian people imposed it on others. Note also the techniques of sending colonists to the new colonies to “civilize” the conquered peoples. Although this was common in Western History (even Alexander the Great used it, it was independently created as a colonial technique in the New World. The most extensive use of this technique was used by the Russians as that expanded to the Soviet Union the consequences of which we see in ethnic strife in the Balkans and the Ukraine even into the 21st century. Often these colonists were used as spies as well, in Peru {641657} as in all the Western examples.

This is a very interesting quotation because it shows that the South American Indians were not only the victims of Spanish colonialism, but before Europeans ever set foot in the New World, expansionism, conquest and colonialism was alive and well. It was just that one Indian people imposed it on others. Note also the techniques of sending colonists to the new colonies to “civilize” the conquered peoples. Although this was common in Western History (even Alexander the Great used it, it was independently created as a colonial technique in the New World. The most extensive use of this technique was used by the Russians as that expanded to the Soviet Union the consequences of which we see in ethnic strife in the Balkans and the Ukraine even into the 21st century. Often these colonists were used as spies as well, in Peru {641657} as in all the Western examples.

The Incas had an amazing mail delivery system like the Pony Expess but with runners. They had the fastest mail delivery system in the entire world and it was then faster than many modern systems in the 21st century. So the Inca received the intelligence of what was being said within a day or two, a much better centralized intelligence system than most.