What's so interesting about Peru and its history?
>inb4 machu picchu
What's so interesting about Peru and its history?
Jonathan Cox
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Jacob Scott
B u m p
Kevin Jackson
Fuck this board
Christopher Barnes
Try /b/, might be more up to your speed and attention span
Noah Green
Fuck Peru. They eat guinea pigs.
Camden Evans
One of source of cocaine empire of Escobar.
Dominic Adams
They had the craziest commies outside of Asia.
>be a Maoist guerrilla
>be so crazy and murderous you lose the support of the peasants, survives from support by lower middle-class urban lumpenproles and high class left-wing intellectuals
>get defeated by a Japanese guy who simply didn't gave a fuck about democracy and human rights and ended up hated by everyone for that
Liam Ross
Most often you'll see people eat strictly beef or chicken
Guinea pigs and lamas/alpacas are something small villages with no electricity ear
Connor Jackson
And they are delicious.
Logan Hughes
incas had a very interesting civilization, built upon previous ones
Colton Bailey
Fuck you, Fujimori is best Mori
t. not peruvian
Isaiah Gutierrez
Weren't the Incas themselves like proto communists?
Ian Fisher
Can you elaborate?
Isaiah Wright
>supporting fuji
WHY
Adam Morris
Inca musical funfact:
One apparent difference between the music of Mesoamerica and the Andes would be the absence of microtonal scales in the Andes, which Mesoamerica does share with the Amazon basin. Another reason for this difference might have originated in the days of Inca rule. The people of the highlands are known to despise the people of Amazonia regarding them as primitive. Up to this day they ridiculize them in a dance called "chunchos". (Stobart Henry. Personal communication. 1999.).
Benjamin Nguyen
In USA homosexuals shove them up their asshole.
Liam Stewart
In Soviet Russia...
Benjamin Ross
Pachacuti was pretty cool
Sebastian Edwards
Not him but Fuji has and will continue to have a core of diehard supporters in Peru and in the diaspora. My parents and most of my extended family support him, mostly because his economic policies helped get Peru's economy back on track. When you bring up the human rights and corruption shit, they generally say something like "those were Fujimori's evil cabinet members, he dindu nuffin" (which may be true, for all we know.)
David Watson
They had one of the largest moneyless societies ever, but they weren't hippies. Everyone had to serve the emperor, meaning peasants would be recruited to do public works projects (not uncommon, this is how the Pyramids were built) and if you were lazy you would eventually be tried for being a malcontent and thrown off a cliff. The Incas had what would be the equivalent of proto-writing in the Old World, but instead of clay tokens or scratches on a tablet, they used knotted cords called quipus. These could be used to relay information on how much agricultural surplus was available, which helped manage their centally-planned economy. The code for the quipus is lost, though, and the Spaniards burned most of them, because the Spaniards are retarded, so we'll probably never know the details of the Inca economy.
John Sanders
The Shining Path is pretty interesting.
Adam Taylor
It's amazing how they managed to completely alienate and piss off pretty much everyone in Peru, including the communists, of which there were many back then.
Jose Bell
Peruvian here, not much. The Vice Royalty and the War of the Pacific and the Civil War are kinda interesting but not much else.
Cooper James
NAZCA LINES
Cameron Brown
What? I'm not peruvian but Cuyo was served in traditional-themed restaurants some pretty expensive, also its fucking delicious, but faggots gonna fag.
They were fucking crazy.
Christopher Brooks
Here in Colombia we know them as Cuy and it's eaten mostly on Nariño department, and it's pretty common down there, and it's not expensive.