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The Nation Spain Couldn't Conquer
Spain crushed the Aztecs and the Inca - but the Mapuche of southern Chile fought them off for ~300 years and won a treaty in 1641 recognizing them as independent (Americas Quarterly; Britannica).
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The Best-Preserved Mummies on Earth Are Frozen on the Andes
Juanita on Ampato (1995) and three children on Llullaillaco (1999) are among the best-preserved mummies on Earth, and the science rewrote what we know about the Inca rite of capacocha. (Source: Wilson et al. 2013, PNAS.)
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