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The Last Days of the Incas is among the most powerful and important accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, of the modern search for the Incas’ lost Amazonian capital of Vilcabamba, and of the discovery of Machu Picchu. In 1911 an American historian from Yale University, Hiram Bingham, stumbled upon a spectacular set of Inca ruins called Machu Picchu, set high upon a ridge in the cloud forest of Peru. Bingham had been searching for a lost Inca city called Vilcabamba—a legendary capital in the Amazon rainforest from which the Incas had conducted a nearly four-decades-long guerrilla war. Spanish renegades had taught the Incas how to ride European horses and to use European weapons and guns and the Incas nearly succeeded in wiping Francisco Pizarro and his conquistadors out. But was Machu Picchu really the Incas’ long lost guerrilla capital? Or did Vilcabamba still lie somewhere in the jungle—a lost Inca city waiting to be discovered?
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The Incas were an ancient people who lived in South America. Their unique culture began to spread during the 12th century, and within 400 years they controlled a larger territory than any other South American cultural group had ever controlled. At its largest, over one million Incas lived in a territory hugging the western coastline of South America from Ecuador in the north to what is now Chile in the south.
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At the time of the Spanish conquest of what is now Peru, the empire that the Incas had built up was the largest and most sophisticated to be found in the New World. Before Pizarro's capture of the Inca emperor, Atahualpa, there had been little contact between the new and old worlds of Europe and the Andean region. However, once the contact was made there was no stopping the destruction that quickly followed. In the footsteps of Cortés, Francisco Pizarro and the men who followed him managed to bring about the overthrow of an entire civilization in just seven short years (Guilmartin 41).
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The knowledge of these myths is due to oral tradition, since the Incas did not have writing. There probably did exist a Manco Capac who became the leader of his tribe. The archeological evidence seems to indicate that the Inca were a relatively unimportant tribe until the time of Sinchi Roca... called Cinchi Roca, who is the first figure in Inca mythology whose existence can be supported historically.
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Incas records began in 1982 as a means for the Connecticut hardcore/punk band Lost Generation to release their first 7" entitled "Never Work". It was an idea conceived by Lost Generation's lead singer Joe Dias. After releasing that record other Connecticut bands began to approach him asking how they could get their bands records pressed. They soon decided that it made sense to use just one label name instead of every band having their own label. From 1982 until the end of the decade Incas released approximately 45 records, tapes and CD's by bands from all over Connecticut and the surrounding states. The majority of the bands were part of the local New Haven music scene and Incas played a big part in unifying these bands and helping them get exposure outside of Connecticut and throughout the world.
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Remote provinces of the Incas extensive empire revolted and in some cases even allied with the Spanish against the Incas (259). Lands and crops were neglected and the people experienced a famine they had never known. The Indians, now wise to the Spanish motive of getting out all the gold and silver they could, started looting and hiding it from everyone. Addiction to coca and alcohol were commonplace all over the kingdom (256,257). Disease ... played a huge role. Those diseases that had once been running rampant all over Europe in the previous century, were now destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of Incas.
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