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What Role Did Religion Play In Conquering The Incan Empire

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Back in the 1400s, if you weren’t a Christian, it meant you were against them. So when Pizarro saw Atahualpa`s reject the holy book and throw it to the ground, Pizarro used that as the reason to start the attack because that meant they rejected Christianity and Pizarro did not like that. You only had one choice, Christianity or Death.
In the Incan Empire, the Spanish destroyed a culture because they rejected Christianity and to save himself from death, the ruler gave them all the gold and silver from his land. The ruler had later refused to convert to Christianity completely and the Spanish killed him for this. It helped the Spanish grow its fortune even though the country would eventually go bankrupt. It had plenty of gold and silver but …show more content…

So what was the point of the war if in the end he was murder and they ended up losing everything. It doesn’t make sense why they killed, because someone didn’t want to be Christian. Maybe they had their own religion. So to me it looks like the war was for nothing because even nowadays they are many different religions out there and everyone has their own opinion about religions. I do see even now if you’re not a Christian you get treated differently. I see it every day to be honest and I feel like I’m being treated different because I was raised catholic with my brother and sister but my brother had chosen to turn to Christianity for his wife and they try to get people to turn Christian but luckily these days you don’t get killed for not choosing Christian but I do feel you get treated different. Now I don’t have anything wrong with Christians, I just feel that I was born catholic. It’s crazy how things are so different from the 1400s and 21st century because they treat everyone not willing to be Christian bad which I believe is wrong. We all just have different

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