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He starts his book with Cajamarca. ~ For him, a ". . ragtag group of 168 Spanish soldiers . ", surrounded by an Inca army of 80,000,4 ". . They ~ probably killed 7000 I n ~ a sThey . ~ did this because they had the massive advantages of guns, steel armour and cutting and thrusting weapons, horses, and the benefit of Eurasian diseases which had prel Garcileso de la Vega. irhe Incas (New York: Avon, 1961), pp. 400-401. De la Vega writes that there were 160 Spaniards in the massacre, and that they killed 5000 Incas, including 1500 women, children, and other non-combatants.

Limited interest in conquest may, in part, be traced to the military factors discouraging expansion in the period c. 36 Furthermore, it is necessary to consider the problems of conquest understood as the creation of new authority. This was less difficult where, as in Europe, there were existing political structures to take over or with which to reach an accommodation. It could be easier to force the more sophisticated, "civilized" peoples into accepting new structures, just as it could be easier to defeat them.

When European overseas bases were not used to support major and sustained programmes of conquest, this can be explained functionally in terms of limited population growth and major confhct within Europe. However, such functional and global explanations are of limited value. It is necessary to consider motivation and purpose. M. Black, Britain as a M i l i t a ~Power 1688-1 815 (London, 1999). W. e Siege of Mosul and Ottoman-Persian Relations 1718-1 743 (Bloomington, Indiana, 1975). For the different Safavid system, see R.

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