Was Inca Rule Tyrannical?

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us, for with the order they introduced the people throve and
multiplied, and arid regions were made fertile and bountiful, in the ways
and goodly manner that will be told.” (Hanke, 55)

Mancio Sierra de Leguizamo wrote about the purity of the society.
There were no thieves, adulterous women, there were no loose morals, and
trust was common through out the society. The men held honorable and
useful occupations. Each person had his own land and estate and no one
took from him or deprive him of it. Leguizamo writes:

“His majesty should understand that my motive in making this declaration is
to unburden my conscience of guilt for having destroyed by our bad example
people of such good conduct as were these natives, both men and women, and
so little given to crime or excess.” (Hanke, 59)

Garcilaso de la Vega shows how the Inca's agricultural system
worked and flourished. They divided the land up into three parts. There
was land for the Sun god, second the King, and ...

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