The argument becomes stronger when independent evidence points in the same direction.

That is what makes the Capachequi identification exciting.

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTACT AND CONQUEST

The word “contact” can sound neutral.

But contact was not always equal.

One side arrived with horses, steel weapons, armor, military organization, and a powerful imperial ideology.

The other side controlled the land but had never encountered this particular kind of foreign army.

The Spanish did not simply ask permission to pass through.