alth through Atahuallpa's ransom. With the fall of the Inca empire, Pizzaro and his associates brought to end the most powerful native state in the New World, whose institutions represented thousands of years of indigenous cultural developments. The Incas cannot be considered to have been benevolent masters by any means, but the abuses and exploration suffered by the native peoples under Spanish rule were far worse.The key to the Spanish conquest of Mexico was the dissension among the different peoples in both empires. The Indian overlords made no attempts to assimilate the other cultures to their own and thus provided the basis for a full scale revolt against them. With diligent work by missionaries, the Spaniards tried to bring together the people of present-day Mexico and the southwestern United States by converting them to Christianity. The resulting extension of the Spanish empire, New Spain, was the most strongly united of the American empires for years to come. Works Cited:Sejourne, Laurette. "Burning Water".Kishlansky, Mark A. Sources of World History. "An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico" (1528).Kishlansky, Mark A. Sources of World History. Cobo, Bernabe. "History of the Inca Empire" (1653). Palfrey, Dale Hoyte. "The Settlement of New Spain". Mexico's Colonial Era - part I. http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/dpalfrey/dpcolonial1.html...
